Yesterday the country observed Youth Day, a day that has a history steeped in our oppressive political past. Today, South African youth have a plethora of challenges, politics not being at the top of the list. In this report we look at alcohol's easy access to the youth and how it impacts their health and lives.
On World TB Day, Health-e News brought you the story of Nerissa Pather ' a young doctor crippled by the multi-drug resistant TB Meningitis. After that report aired on Special Assignment, the MEC for Health in Kwa-Zulu Natal visited the family and has promised to ensure that she gets compensation.
This month Dr Eve argues that the rights, needs of the patients need to come first, that all information must be evidence based and that all health care providers must work in an integrated multidisciplinary manner.
On Sunday 30th May, more than 23 000 runners took part in the Comrades marathon between Pietermaritzburg and Durban. One of the teams that participated was a group of HIV+ athletes. In this insert the runners from Positive Heroes explain the importance of showing that people with HIV are still able to achieve their dreams.
5 million people worldwide die of tobacco related diseases every year, which is one death every 10 seconds. Despite the crack down on smokers in South Africa through increased tax on cigarettes and restrictions on where they can smoke, few people take heed of the warnings that tobacco kills. In this insert produced by Fathima Simjee, Ken Newman, who was a smoker for over 50 years explains why he wishes he had never lit a cigarette in his life.
After a civil society group laid a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an ad campaign for Carling Black Label beer with the pay-off line, 'Groot man of laaitie', South African Breweries quietly decided to pull the ad campaign.
The majority of countries in sub-Saharan Africa rely on foreign funding to run their national AIDS programmes. But this over-reliance on donor agencies is now proving unsustainable as funders are freezing or reducing their support. Thus, local governments are now required to look no further than inward to save their own.
The gold mining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the TB crisis it faces at the recent South African TB Conference.
The latest edition of The Lancet journal has an editorial calling for tobacco control in developing countries to be stepped up in an effort to impact on the cancer incidence.
National Vice President for Global Health at the American Cancer Society, Nathan Grey answers important questions pertaining to the recent UN Resolution on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
This year's AVAC Report is the first to be published in the context of clinical trial evidence that an AIDS vaccine is possible. Turning the Page reviews the broader state of'and debates around'AIDS vaccines and other HIV prevention research.
Seven out of 10 South Africans with TB also have HIV, yet they have to get their TB and HIV treatment in different clinics.
One of South Africa's most eminent HIV scientists has been accused of causing 'preventable deaths' during a clinical trial he conducted on people co-infected with HIV and TB.
An amendment to the Health Act allowing counselors to draw blood for HIV testing using a finger prick device will see more people being tested.
Despite government promises, there are no guidelines on how TB and HIV services can be integrated - and this delay is killing patients
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