Challenges of breastfeeding
Despite knowing the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of a child'€™s life, many new mothers often encounter challenges that prevent them from breast-feeding.
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Tutu TB research centre wins major award
The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) at the University of Stellenbosch will today receive an international award for its groundbreaking research into childhood TB and for its pioneering community-based approaches to TB and HIV care.
African leaders should prioritise immunisation
African leaders were criticised for failing to prioritise immunisation with life-saving vaccines for children under five years of age to prevent deadly infectious diseases.
Fighting the scourge of non-communicable diseases
About 500 000 people are expected to benefit from a US$30million global project aimed at addressing non-communicable diseases. The project will be rolled out in four countries, including South Arica, and will have a special focus on diabetes.
Tutu: Organising to battle Drug-Resistant TB
Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes in the Wall Street Journal that South African mines are incubating a deadly form of tuberculosis that is spreading world-wide. Read the full article.
Private sector aid for public health
A unique partnership launched this week between the private health sector and the national Health Department will result in more student doctors being trained, the strengthening of health management education and training and the funding of local research in TB and HIV and AIDS.
Good news on infant malaria vaccine
Results from a pivotal, large-scale Phase III trial, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate can help protect African infants against malaria. Read the rest of the press release.
Vhembe clinic drug supplies run dry
OurHealth: Vhembe '€“ Two local clinics are experiencing critical drug shortages, with both reporting that they are at times only able to dispense Panado.
Confusion as clinic closed
OurHealth: Lusikisiki - Several attempts to prevent the closure of Village Clinic, which treats a large number of people living with HIV, have failed and patients were met with locked doors on Tuesday morning.
Winterveldt HIV projects face closure
OurHealth: Winterveldt '€“ A number of non-governmental organisations who were in the past supported by the United States President'€™s Emergency Plan for AIDS (Pepfar) are closing at the end of March because they have failed to secure alternative funding.
TAC and chiefs join forces to save Madwaleni
OurHealth: Madwaleni '€“ Local chiefs joined forces with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in a drive to remedy the desperate situation at Madwaleni hospital where a lone doctor is trying to hold the fort.
Phase out D4T in poor countries
In 2010 the World Health Organisation (WHO) changed the HIV treatment guidelines for poor countries and recommended switching from stavudine (D4T) to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) for all patients on first line treatment.
OPINION by Vuyiseka Dubula (Quackdown)
HPCSA axes thousands from its register
PRESS RELEASE: Almost 10 000 healthcare practitioners were suspended from the Health Professions Council of South Africa'€™s (HPCSA) register this past weekend for failure to pay their annual fees.
Strike paralyses E Cape health services
A large number of clinics and hospitals in the Eastern Cape are experiencing critical medicine shortages and stock outs while surgery and other procedures have virtually grind to a halt due to a wildcat strike by staff at the Mthatha Health Complex (MHC).
Hope for stroke prevention
About 35% or 500 out of 100 000 strokes that occur in South Africa every year can now be prevented. This is thanks to a new drug registered for use in the country this week for the prevention and management of strokes in people with a heart condition known as Atrial Fibrillation.