Stellenbosch University recently launched the African Cancer Institute (ACI) to build African countries’ abilities to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Health-e caught up with ACI’s director, Vikash Sewram, to find out how the institute plans to achieve this bold objective.
Eastern Cape citizen journalist Mtshana Mvilisi presents the first in a series of regular columns and says HIV-positive people are taking dangerous gambles with drug resistance.
When Paul Mawasha was diagnosed with HIV 15 years ago at the age of 29, he never thought he would see live to see 40.
This letter, delivered to South Africa Deputy President and national AIDS council chairperson Kgalema Motlanthe, outlines ongoing concerns regarding HIV treatment and health in Mpumalanga.
South Africa's largest association of people living with HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), boycotted South Africa’s World AIDS Day commemoration as more than 900 members marched on the site of celebrations in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga.
Thembi Khabonina Nkomo, from Daantjie in Nelspruit, was diagnosed with HIV 13 years ago. She was afraid of being disowned by her family. She now credits her family’s love and support for her strength and happiness.
Some of South Africa’s 2.4 million HIV patients will be able to get antiretroviral (ARV) outside of health clinics in a move the Department of Health hopes will help address stock outs.
There is a big hole in the middle of South Africa’s HIV treatment programme that is undermining government’s remarkable achievements since 2009, when AIDS denialist President Thabo Mbeki was kicked out.
Budget cuts and poor financial management may be some of the culprits driving the country’s medicine stockouts.
More than ten percent of all health centres in the country have experienced stock outs of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) medicines in the last three months, jeopardising the health of millions of South African.
Erick Mudanalo from Limpopo has been taking tuberculosis (TB) treatment for three years but it was his recent HIV-positive diagnosis that almost caused him to give up hope altogether.
Released by a civil society consortium, this report shows that one-in-five health centers surveyed had experienced drug shortages or stock outs recently.
In April, the Department of Health introduced South Africa’s first three-in-one fixed dose (FDC) antiretroviral (ARV). OurHealth speaks to an FDC veteran about the difference one pill can make.
A low-cost, point-of-care test to detect cervical cancer may be available in South Africa by 2018.
NewsMeBack citizen journalism blog interviews Health-e's OurHealth citizen journalist manager Sibongile Nkosi.
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