TB trial splits HIV community
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.
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Green light for finger prick
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.
Integration of TB and HIV services ‘not rocket science’
Despite government promises, there are no guidelines on how TB and HIV services can be integrated - and this delay is killing patients
Saving mothers and children
The death of a child's mother massively reduces the child's chances of survival to age 10 years, whereas the father's death has a negligible effect, a study on child survival in Bangladesh has found.
Cancer will kill 13.2m by 2030
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) this week released GLOBOCAN 2008, a new database which provides the most accurate assessment of the global cancer burden. It shows that Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.
Annie Lennox spreads HIV goodwill
The world renowned Scottish singer songwriter and women's activist Annie Lennox has been named as International Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Rich nations taking health away from poor Living with AIDS # 434
Millions of AIDS patients in Africa will face severe suffering and death if donor nations and organisations continue to back-track on their commitment to fund AIDS treatment programmes, warns Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Kicking the nicotine butt
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has launched the CANSA e-kick Butt programme which aims to see nicotine addicts giving up the habit.
Piot heads for London
Former UNAIDS chief Peter Piot has been appointed Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a research-led postgraduate centre of excellence in public health, international health and tropical medicine.
Anti-gay legislation could ruin health efforts ‘ activists
Health and human rights groups have warned that discrimination and homophobic legislation hampers the success of health initiatives.
Bringing hope on wings
The SA Red Cross Air Mercy Service's (AMS) flying doctor initiative is bringing hope to poor patients living in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Lungi Langa of Health-e News Service recently accompanied the health workers on a flying visit to Dundee Hospital.
Change at the MCC – too little, too late?
South Africa's beleaguered Medicines Control Council (MCC) is slowly starting to make inroads into its massive backlog, however it will take a long time to repair the damage done by years of political meddling and incompetence.
KZN drug-resistant TB patients might double soon
New rapid tests at four decentralised sites is likely to bring in many more patients for the province
HIV and AIDS worsens SA’ s child mortality Living with AIDS # 433
The HIV and AIDS epidemic is largely responsible for the increase of child mortality rates in South Africa, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said at a media briefing early this week. His remarks follow the deaths of six babies at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and 10 at Natalspruit Hospital on Gauteng's East Rand, recently.
ARV donor money running dry
Donors are disengaging from the fight against HIV/AIDS leaving behind millions who are still in dire need of lifesaving treatment in South Africa and other hard-hit Sub-Saharan African countries, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).