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.
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.
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.
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.
SHENZHEN ' At least five billion people live in countries with limited or no access to controlled pain medication with the vast majority having inadequate access to the most basic treatment for moderate to severe pain.
SHENZHEN ' Over 3 000 international cancer experts are currently meeting in China to renew their fight against a disease which is killing millions every year and to renew their efforts to control tobacco.
Landmark report shows that cancer has the greatest economic impact from premature death and disability of all causes of death worldwide.
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'.
SHENZHEN ' The drive to prevent, treat and control cancer is facing a major turning point with the disease set to be given higher global priority.
Women leaders in South Africa have hailed the outcome of a microbicide gel study, saying it will help protect women who can't negotiate safe sex with their partners against HIV infection.
Intensifying their search for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection, scientists are planning to run an improved version of the successful Thai HIV vaccine trial in South Africa next year.
This being National Immunisation Week, we focus on a vaccine for pneumonia, one of the illnesses that target children, and is responsible for the majority of infant morbidity and mortality rates.
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