DURBAN – All patients diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis will now have access to a promising new drug bedaquiline, which is still undergoing trials, via a clinical access programme driven by the national health department.
The ongoing stock-out of antiretroviral medicine is at the forefront of AIDS activists’ agenda at the 6th South African AIDS conference, which opened last night (18 June).
Drug stock-outs at clinics were placed at the forefront of discussions during a number of Imbizos held by the Vhembe District Municipality in three villages last week.
A survey of 1 700 South African men from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal revealed that one in 10 men has been sexually assaulted by another man, while about one in 20 report having consensual sexual contact with other men – many who are at the same time in sexual relationships with women, according to research.
Tobacco adverts really do persuade teens to take up smoking, with every 10 sightings boosting the risk by almost 40 percent, reveals research published in the online only journal BMJ Open.
Electronic cigarettes will be regulated as non-prescription medicine in Britain from 2016 in an attempt to monitor the quality of the products.
Thousands of people living with HIV in the Eastern Cape are in catastrophic danger of developing fatal drug resistance due to ongoing interruptions in their antiretroviral (ARV) drug supplies, with activists calling on the national health minster to intervene. The…
The Zola Community combined soccer and HIV testing as it celebrated Youth Day on June 16.
With the looming threat of plain packaging, tobacco companies in the United Kingdom have launched a stealth marketing campaign to try and mobilise smokers to “fight back”.
Children are being used to grow tobacco and the practice is thriving in the Asia Pacific region. This is according to a new report, launched today (June 12) to coincide with World Day Against Child Labour. The Report on Child…
A Thailand trial has shown that a daily dose of the antiretroviral (ARV) drug Tenofovir reduces HIV incidence by almost half among injecting drug users and even further if they adhere to the regimen. The latest results complete the picture…
OPINION: Illegal cigarettes often make headlines in South Africa – a cigarette stash is either seized at the border or is being destroyed, or another smuggler is appearing in court. Unlike illicit drugs, you don’t need to meet a dodgy…
BETHLEHEM. – On World No Tobacco Day members from the Department of Health (DOH) in the Thabo Mofutsanyana district marched through the streets wearing T-shirts with the message “smoking is addictive, don’t start” and shouted “Down with smoking! Down!” “We…
The amount of smoking in movies has reduced since regulations stopping tobacco companies from buying on-screen brand placements were introduced in 1998, according to a new study in JAMA Pediatrics. Meanwhile the number of alcohol brand appearances has increased in…
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