Remember how difficult understanding sexuality and the changes in your body was when you were growing up? Well, today's adolescents go through the same hardships and probably know no better. But help is at hand in a newly published guide that explains the changes and developments in young bodies.
Medicine stock-outs, broken machinery and poor hospital administration are hindering access to cancer treatment that determines whether patients live or die in the public sector.
Countries most affect by the HIV pandemic are struggling to place enough people on treatment and to implement the best science and prevention strategies to fight the disease, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned.
The number of children infected globally with HIV has decreased by more than a quarter (26%) between 2009 and 2011, however more than 90 percent of the 3,4-million children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
JOHANNESBURG, July, 17, 2012 ' The South African Nursing Council (SANC) and Africa Health Placements (AHP) recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to bring more nurses to South Africa.
Child mortality rates have slowly come down, although they are still significantly high. Health experts say this is attributed to huge inequalities that exist in accessing health care.
Deputy-President Kgalema Motlanthe and health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi will join a high-level line-up addressing the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) starting in Washington on Sunday.
Young people are more likely to start smoking if they watch a lot of movies with cigarette-smoking characters, new research published in the journal Pediatrics suggest.
The health care system must gear itself for an "explosion" of cancer and other non-communicable diseases, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said during a recent visit to the iThemba Labs in Cape Town.
The South African government should develop a plan to make healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, and whole grain cereals more available, affordable, and acceptable, and non-essential, high-calorie, nutrient-poor products, including soft drinks and some packaged foods and snacks, less available, more costly, and less appealing to the South African population.
Researchers have found the cells at the origin of cervical cancer, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This discovery may offer new ways to prevent and treat the disease.
A 'vicious assault on people's lifestyle choices' by 'Nicotine nazi's' ' that is how Leon Louw, executive director for the Free Market Foundation (FMF) described the new anti-smoking laws that will place severe restrictions on the areas where smoking are allowed.
The strike by AIDS counsellors in Gauteng is continuing, despite the provincial heath department's promise to settle the pay dispute. The striking workers say they will return to work only when the Gauteng Health Department has deposited their money into their accounts.
Is it possible to control the epidemic of HIV by using antiretroviral therapy? This pressing question is addressed in a collection of new articles published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
An advocacy group affiliated with the American Cancer Society asked the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services last week to direct the surgeon general to fully investigate the relationship between human health and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, or SSBs. By Jennifer LaRue Huget for the Washington Post
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