Staffing rural health facilities
Retaining health workers in rural facilities remains a major challenge facing South Africa and other developing nations. But, some success stories have emerged from a few rural areas.
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The link between mental health & HIV Living with AIDS # 447
People living with HIV and AIDS are at an increased risk of developing serious mental disorders, according to mental health professionals at a Johannesburg meeting this week.
Teaching health communication Living with AIDS # 446
In a special partnership the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication and the Wits School of Public Health, have launched a post-graduate degree programme aimed at breeding professionals who will promote and implement social and behaviour change communication in health.
Prison over-crowding spreads TB and HIV
DURBAN - Severe overcrowding in KwaZulu-Natal's prisons is contributing to the spread of HIV and tuberculosis and driving the high death toll in prisons.
First ladies fight cancer
At the fourth annual Stop Cervical Cancer in Africa meeting, we the First Ladies of Ghana, Niger, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and The Gambia present in Accra commit ourselves as champions of one of the most critical health issues of our time'the growing burden of women's cancers, especially cervical and breast cancer'in the world's poorest nations.
Strike threatens lives’ of AIDS patients
People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.
Partnering to spread AIDS ‘ Part 2 Living with AIDS # 445
This week we continue our conversation with Helen Epstein, author of 'The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against Aids', which unravels how the practice of multiple and concurrent partnerships fuels the spread of AIDS on the African continent.
Hospital battles to help the most helpless of patients
A row of tiny babies, many premature and weighing less than a kilogramme, lie under blue ultraviolet lights. Feeding tubes snake into their little noses while others are fed intravenously.
Baby Blues
For the last decade, everyone living and working with AIDS has been preoccupied with securing access to life-saving drugs. Now that just under a million South Africans are on ARVs, there's a new frontier in the fight against the virus: Safeguarding the human rights of people living with HIV.
Substance abuse blamed for children’s woes
Health-e News Service visited Middelburg, in the Eastern Cape, and saw how children suffer and are forced to fend for themselves as their parents live under the spell of alcohol abuse.
Autistic children struggle to get and education
All children are guaranteed the right to education in South Africa. However children with more specific education needs are sometimes forgotten on the sidelines. There are only 9 schools for children with autism in the entire country. This insert,looks at the challenges faced by a school for autistic children in Johannesburg.
Secrets and Lies
For years South Africans battled to learn their sexual alphabet- A abstain, B be faithful and C condomise. Sexual behaviour has proved stubbornly resistant to change. The majority of people still do not understand that regular unprotected sex with more than one partner increases the risk of infection dramatically.
Tobacco control = cancer reduction
SHENZHEN - The single biggest impact on cancer can be made by reducing tobacco use, a leading expert has told delegates at the World Cancer Congress.
Partnering to spread AIDS Living with AIDS # 444
Have you ever wondered why HIV spreads so fast in Africa? Have you ever thought that people considered high risk takers, like sex workers and truck drivers, are at more risk of HIV infection than yourself? Molecular biologist and author, Helen Epstein, turns conventional wisdom around in her renowned book, 'The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS'.
Global Economic Cost of Cancer
Landmark report shows that cancer has the greatest economic impact from premature death and disability of all causes of death worldwide.