KENYA: (PlusNews) - Makueni District Hospital in eastern Kenya has recorded a significant drop in the weight of several of its HIV-positive patients in the past three months, which nutritionists ascribe to severe food shortages across much of the country.
ZIMBABWE: (PlusNews) - Former model Tendayi Westerhof is better known these days as a tough-talking HIV/AIDS activist. After testing HIV positive seven years ago, she left the modelling world to found the Public Personalities Against AIDS Trust (PPAAT) to encourage other public figures and celebrities to be open about their HIV status.
MOZAMBIQUE:(PlusNews) - A narrow hallway leads to a makeshift wooden counter where a shelf displays a few empty beer cans and soft drink bottles; a side door opens to a corridor with a series of bedrooms, almost all of them occupied. This is the 25 de Setembro Social Centre, one of the largest brothels in Chimoio, capital of Mozambique's central province of Manica.
A new year often means a new start. Pholokgolo Ramothwala, a 30 year-old who has been living with HIV for 10 years, also wants to make new beginnings. Topping his list of things to do is the need to quit alcohol.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has turned its sights on increasing the number of '€˜child size'€™ medicines designed and formulated specifically for children.
Across the human lifespan, we are most vulnerable to death during birth and in the first 28 days of life. This is even more so for children born in developing nations including South Africa.
This article busts the myth that young girls are falling pregnant to access social grants.
By Marlise Richter
A malaria vaccine candidate is proving to provide both infants and young children with significant protection against one of Africa'€™s biggest killers, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine has revealed.
Many South Africans are physically inactive, consume poor and unhealthy diets and are overweight and obese '€“ leading to all kinds of preventable conditions that kill them prematurely.
The global burden of cancer has more than doubled during the past 30 years and it is estimated that in 2008 there were over 12 million new cases of cancer diagnosed, 7 million deaths from cancer and 25 million persons alive with cancer.
The primary health care system is failing South African communities in desperate need of mental health services for common conditions such as anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress and school-related problems.
If you hear the term '€œPerson Living with HIV'€œ -- do you call to mind images of someone who is sick, depressed and anxious? Well, then you will be delighted to meet Pholokgolo Ramothwala. Health-e will follow Pholo's story.
Outgoing UNAIDS director Dr Peter Piot praises new spirit of unity in South Africa's AIDS response, as health minister says ARV waiting lists must be shortened.
Welcome to CAPETOWN '€“ the seat of a government that for many years confused it'€™s people about the best ways for treating HIV. Vitamins, olive oil, lemon and beetroot, and a number of traditional therapies were promoted over scientifically proven life-prolonging anti-retroviral treatment.
There is still no known cure for AIDS. Antiretroviral medication remains the only way to treat and manage the condition if one'€™s CD 4 cell count, which measures how strong a person'€™s immune system is, drops to below 200. But many continue to deceive those living with HIV, claiming that they can cure them of AIDS. In South Africa, some traditional healers claim that they can cure AIDS. But is there any substance in these claims?
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