A promising new drug currently on trial offers the last hope for some patients with pre-extensively drug resistant (XDR) or XDR tuberculosis, and the life or death decision on whether to make it available rests with the Medicines Control Council (MCC).
Preventing new AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections is at the heart of the new National Strategic Plan (NSP) on HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs, which came into effect at the beginning of April.
The most frequently cited study of HIV in the Muslim community found that more than two and a half percent of Muslim men were HIV-positive. That is significantly lower than South Africa's general population, but, enough to worry leaders in the community. Health-e News Service visited a centre that's reaching out to support women and children affected by HIV.
The Gauteng Health Department aims to test 3 million people for HIV and to put almost one million people onto treatment in the new financial year.
Researchers were able to estimate how many people died from cancer in India in 2010 by using a novel method of projecting cancer deaths based on patterns of cancer mortality in a 2000-2003 sample of households.
'Your results came back positive ' you have breast cancer. When would you like to have the mastectomy done?'
Many smokers in South Africa do not enjoy smoking and 'desperately' wish they could kick the habit.
There is only one way to get well after being diagnosed with Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB. It is to stay positive and to adhere to taking the prescribed treatment, says Siphamandla Nkukayi, an in-patient at Sizwe Hospital. Ayanda Mkhwanazi of Health-e News Service paid him a visit.
Just days before the new National Strategic Plan (NSP) on HIV and AIDS, TB and STIs is due to be implemented on the 1st of April, the entire staff of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) has been fired, leaving no one in the SANAC Secretariat to deliver on the plan.
Despite being a major childhood killer, the plight of children with Tuberculosis has largely been ignored.
HIV is mostly a sexually transmitted infection, yet many people shy away from expressing sexuality or speaking openly about the very fact and act that may result in HIV infection. But that could change if Phindile Sithole-Spong, a young Johannesburg-based woman has her way.
Breast cancer patients who are overweight or obese are at an increased risk for recurrence of the disease, according to a new study.
The Gauteng Health Department says decentralising TB treatment will help address the number of treatment defaulters the province currently has.
With only one lung as a result of tuberculosis, Thabo Mwale is a man on a mission. He wants to protect others from going through the same experience he did.
New research has shown that second-hand smoke is even more dangerous than previously thought. A team of researchers led by Dr AK Rajasekaran of the Nemours Centre for Childhood Cancer Research found that a key protein involved in cell function and regulation is stopped hampered by a substance present in cigarette smoke.
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