The humanitarian medical aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has reported an increase in rape cases reported to its various clinics in South Africa and worldwide. MSF recently released a report detailing the nature of cases patients present their aid workers with.
First Aid is a very well known and important procedure in society. But, Mental Health First Aid is something new in this country. It was imported from Australia where it was developed. South African experts identified the need for this program as a result of rising numbers of cases of patients with mental illnesses.
The National Health Department has for the first time taken firm steps against vitamin seller Matthias Rath by confiscating consignments of his flagship multi-vitamin VitaCell in Durban and Cape Town and opening criminal cases for his alleged contravention of the Medicines Act.
A lecture given at the 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) held in Montreal, Canada, recently highlighted the extent to which Antiretroviral therapy (ARV) has become central to today'€™s attempts to prevent HIV infection.
Apart from the physical, psychological and emotional pain that comes with being raped, survivors still deal with being stigmatised and cast out of their families and communities. A report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reveals that sexual abuse victims, especially in countries facing humanitarian crises, do not receive emergency medical attention.
The AIDS epidemic in our country, over more than 10 years, has had sadly many more downs than ups.
MOMBASA:(PlusNews) - A shortage of free female condoms in public hospitals in Kenya's Coast Province is compromising the ability of women to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
The latest edition of the HIV Treatment Bulletin contains a report on two studies calculating the excess number of AIDS deaths in South Africa resulting from a delay in governmental roll-out of highly active ARV treatment (HAART) and in preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).
Thousands of Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa have been displaced after an order by the Department of Home of Affairs for them to vacate a field in Musina where they have been living for several months.
Going to the dentist is not a pleasurable experience for some. It'€™s even worse for those who are experiencing severe pain from HIV-related oral infections. We take a look at how one'€™s good oral health can deteriorate due to HIV infection.
NAIROBI:(PlusNews) - Exactly one year ago, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and his erstwhile rival for the presidency, Raila Odinga, signed an agreement that created a government of national unity, ending two months of election-related violence during which more than 1,000 people were killed. The effects of that violence are still being felt.
In this month'€™s diary, Pholokgolo Ramothwala writes that poor health and stress have slammed the brakes on his plans to make new beginnings.
A study conducted in the United States shows that high doses of Vitamin D supplementation could reduce the skin cancer risk in older, post-menopausal women by almost 80 percent. However, a local cancer expert has warned that the study published the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition could only be significant locally if a similar study was conducted in South Africa
With February being the month when love is in the air, we spent some time with a discordant couple, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other is not, to find out the importance of couples testing together.
At the first ever African Sex Workers'€™ Conference held in Johannesburg recently, sex workers called on governments to recognise their needs in their plans to respond to the AIDS epidemic.
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