The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has urged governments and donors to pour money for HIV services into the Global Fund or risk a global emergency for AIDS funding. This comes on the eve of the third Voluntary Replenishment Conference which will be hosted by the Global Fund next month. Click here to view page.
International donors and African governments have been called upon to commit financial resources for the elimination of HIV infection in children, which still remains high. In South Africa alone, AIDS-related child mortality is 45%.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has urged governments and donors to pour money for HIV services into the Global Fund or risk a global emergency for AIDS funding.
Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the world and even more so in Africa where patients have little or no access to preventative screening or treatment. Doug Ulman, President and CEO of LIVESTRONG recently spoke to Health-e News Service.
The Lancet has published a new blueprint for international development, a week ahead of the UN's major summit about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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