Rift valley fever cases rise
Cases of Rift Valley Fever continue to rise with The National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) confirming up to 39 human infections and 2 deaths.
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Russia – 1 in 4 with TB develop resistance
In some areas of the world, one in four people with tuberculosis (TB) becomes ill with a resistant form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drug regimens, a World Health Organization (WHO) report says.
Minister tackles nutrition
Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says there is a need for a road map for food and security in order to identify the various factors associated with over and under nutrition in South African households. Download speech here.
SA intensifies HIV testing Living with AIDS # 423
Within a few days, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, will launch a massive campaign aimed at encouraging millions of South Africans to test for HIV. The campaign will precede the implementation of new treatment protocols for AIDS and TB on April 1.
SA launches massive HIV testing campaign
From April 15, everyone attending a clinic or hospital will be offered an HIV test, regardless of whether they have symptoms of the disease or not.
Hi-tech cancer treatment centre a first
Johannesburg, A much needed cancer treatment centre that offers fully inclusive oncology services to the people of the East Rand was officially opened at the Netcare Clinton Hospital in Alberton yesterday.
Love, care and vegetables
Lush food gardens set up by an Oxfam partner have been a lifeline for communities in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, in the recent economic hardships.
SA has a weighty problem
South Africa is sitting on a malnutrition time bomb '€“ which has seen people either being severely over- or underweight, top nutrition expert Professor Demetre Labadarios has warned.
Lance meets fellow survivors
They sat in little excited huddles of four around tables in the long, narrow hospital room. Some old, some younger, some still children. Many of them had bald heads, despite their young age, while others covered their hair loss with scarves.
Armstrong on a cancer stigma mission
Cancer activist and one of history'€™s greatest cyclists Lance Armstrong has called on the 38 000 Argus participants to paint the race yellow on Sunday when they line up for the world'€™s biggest organised cycle race.
Global Fund hopeful about health targets Living with AIDS # 422
Mother-to-child HIV transmission in the developing world could be eliminated by 2015 and so could malaria if rich countries and industry do not reduce or discontinue their funding, according to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Cabinet backs testing and treatment targets
Cabinet has approved the implementation plan to scale up the HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment programme which will include ministers and other leaders taking HIV tests.
Anti-smoking campaign scoops a prize in BMJ Group Awards
A campaign of financial incentives to help quit smoking; a project to help change attitudes of doctors to patients; and research into the prevention of death from severe malaria in children will scoop three of the top prizes at the second international BMJ Group Awards ceremony tonight (10 March 2010).
AIDS activist women honoured
The Treatment Action Campaign'€™s General Secretary Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola and Chairperson Nonkosi Khumalo have received the John M Lloyd Foundation Leadership Award in Los Angeles.
Tobacco control a no-brainer
OPINION: Recent legislation to strengthen tobacco control policy in South Africa is a progressive step to protect the public health of the country. By Evan Blecher.