AIDS needs innovative thinking
Leaders need more creative plans to increase funding to reduce child malnutrition and AIDS, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
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Long walk to help
A Cape Town family share their distressing journey of trying to find help for their heroin addicted daughter. Lungi Langa spoke to them.
Alcohol is still the no 1 drug of choice
The rooms all look relatively similar: A single bed, a rug, a nightstand and a few personal touches like flowers or framed pictures.
Tackling TB critical to meeting MDGs
Over 50-million people will be infected with TB between now and 2015 in the absence of funding and political commitment, the Stop TB partnership has warned.
Snooze or lose, TAC warns
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.
Call to end child deaths from HIV Living with AIDS # 448
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%.
Risk of global emergency for AIDS funding
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.
Q &A with LIVESTRONG CEO
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.
MDGs – what are the lessons learnt?
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).
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.
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.