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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seven out of 10 South Africans with TB also have HIV, yet they have to get their TB and HIV treatment in different clinics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Despite government promises, there are no guidelines on how TB and HIV services can be integrated - and this delay is killing patients
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.
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