CAPE TOWN ' A multi-million rand AngloGold Ashanti investment in a malaria control programme in Ghana has led to massive reductions in productivity losses, school absenteeism, infant mortality and treatment costs, a report released at the World Economic Forum has shown.
The University of Limpopo Medunsa campus this week launched a clinical scientific trial to test a vaccine developed in Italy to investigate whether it can slow HIV progression in people already living with the HI-virus.
A controversial US project that pays drug users and alcoholics to undergo sterilisation or long-term contraception, is setting its sights on women living with HIV in South Africa.
Against the back-drop of diminishing donor support for national AIDS programmes in Africa and the rest of the developing world, the question on many minds is: What role should individual states play to ensure that their citizens continue to receive critical care?
Civil society organisations want to see government taking a firmer stand to stop antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) from being smuggled onto the black market.
With about 500 000 South Africans estimated to be newly-infected with tuberculosis annually, South Africa is a TB high-risk area for children. Yet, no data exists on the incidence of paediatric TB and very few children are diagnosed.
Dis-Chem this week responded to criticism after their involvement in the tour to South Africa of vitamin salesman and author Patrick Holford.
Health campaigners in east and southern Africa want the United Nations to develop a policy framework to ensure that countries honour and implement the right to health care.
Tuberculosis is the leading cause of natural death in South Africa and over 10% of all new TB cases are drug resistant. One of the most important measures for controlling the spread of the bacteria is quick diagnosis and treatment. Revolutionary new testing technology may make this possible.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says Tuberculosis (TB) is underfunded and progress action against the epidemic is slow. TB has been one of the most important causes of premature death in South Africa, made worse by the HIV pandemic.
In a profession often marred by disillusionment, poor resources and negative publicity, some nurses still manage to uphold their ethics and even risk their lives by working in highly infectious environments.
Every child in South Africa will have come into contact with drugs by the time they leave secondary school. One in three will have taken them. Increasingly, the drug of choice is heroin.
The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society and the Treatment Action Campaign have demanded that Dis-Chem explain its decision to host vitamin salesman Patrick Holford.
South Africa has a serious TB epidemic and many patients are not even diagnosed. The country also has the third highest TB burden in the world, says head of SA's TB programme.
The city of Johannesburg's Health Department says it is struggling to bring down the rate of city dwellers defaulting on TB treatment. In 2009, the city had a 6.9 % defaulter rate. The target is to bring it down to less than 5%. Health-e News Service visited a clinic in Marlboro to see what the difficulties are.
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