Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of mortality globally, causing more deaths than all other causes combined, and they strike hardest at the world’s low and middle-income populations.
This report by the African Palliative Care Association discusses the benefits of palliative care for women living with HIV and provides some case studies of real women who have had experience of palliative care.
A team of South African experts has created the country’s first guidelines for managing pain in cancer patients, due to be released early next year.
Hospice is still a place associated with HIV, cancer and death. But rising rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) may mean South Africa needs to rethink the meaning of hospice.
Published by the African Palliative Care Association, this booklet is intended to help women living with HIV as well as cancer of the cervix, their families and others in the community who support them.
Produced by the African Palliative Care Association, the guide includes evidence‐based information on the use of opioids in the management of pain in patients with cancer and other illnesses.
With non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounting for almost half of all deaths in South Africa, the department of health has released a new strategy to curb rising rates of diseases such as diabetes, cancer and hypertension.
The South African Oncology Consortium (SAOC) has rallied behind a cancer doctor accused by medical aid giant Discovery of prescribing the “wrong medicine” for one of its members.
PRESS RELEASE: The statement by statistician-general Pali Lehohla that unhappiness is the leading cause of hypertension is not only inaccurate; it creates a dangerous illusion for South Africans.
Not getting enough exercise is about as bad for you as smoking, say experts who add that squeezing in more physical activity can be as simple as twirling your hair.
With summer fast approaching, the South African Society for Dermatological Surgery is set to make sure that South Africans are 'sun smart.'
Released by public interest organization Section27 and the Treatment Action Campaign, the report details the state of Eastern Cape public health services.
BHISHO - The Eastern Cape provincial government has until 12 October to formulate a plan to fix the province’s faltering health services after the province’s new Head of Health, Dr. Thobile Mbengashe, accepted a memorandum in Bhisho on Friday.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has sent a task team to the Eastern Cape to investigate the deterioration of provincial health services.
More than a third of South Africans could be exposed to dangerous levels of second-hand smoke, according to a recent study. Health-e presents this growing threat in numbers.
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