As football fans from around the world arrive in South Africa to cheer on their favourite team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we must not lose sight of one unwelcome guest'HIV. By Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director
OPINION: "I've written this article to argue that FIFA, as the world's football authority, has an ethical responsibility for social action, in fact, it owes the soccer-playing world - effectively all of humanity - a massive sustainable and measurably successful longitudinal social project starting from THIS World Cup, a moral imperative on which millions of lives will hang in the balance. By Richard Witzig
President Jacob Zuma has declared that African leaders aimed to deliver on their commitments to allocate 15% of their budgets to health care and to allocate an amount for maternal, newborn and child health care.
Work-place peer educators are a unique invaluable resource that the country has in its response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, but their role is not sufficiently exploited. This is according to a book, titled 'Changing the course of AIDS'.
A statement by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World released at a press conference in Toronto, June 22, 2010.
KwaZulu-Natal's health department is using a plastic device in its mass male circumcision drive that speeds up the procedure but has significant side-effects in adult men.
The average school kid tends roll their eyes when HIV is mentioned, yet thousands of pupils in Edendale have been learning valuable life skills while learning to play soccer.
Women in abusive relationships have a higher risk of being infected with HIV, a South African Medical Research Council study has found.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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