MEC wants traditional medicine in hospice
KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni is attempting to introduce traditional medicine for AIDS patients at a hospice with the help of traditional healers who are opposed to antiretroviral medication.
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How justice helped reduce AIDS denialism Living with AIDS # 371
Although the courts must not be seen to be actively supporting any cause, judgments that have come from the judiciary have clearly spoken out against the denialism that has characterized the government's response to HIV/AIDS.
Hogan sends money and reinforcements to sort out ARV mess
The national health department has intervened in the crisis in the Free State where financial mismanagement has caused a shortage of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.
Free State in disarray over ARV funds
Panicky e-mails sent to Free State health facilities with instructions to 'stop putting new clients on ARVs' appear to have been caused by a misinterpretation of the budget or gross financial mismanagement after National Treasury indicated that the province had spent less than half of its conditional grant allocated for prevention and treatment.
Q and A with Minister Hogan
Health-e was the first news agency to be offered a one-on-one interview with Health Minister Barbara Hogan. She spoke about her priorities.
330 000 lose lives due to ARV delay in SA – Harvard study
More than 330,000 lives were lost to HIV/AIDS in South Africa between 2000 and 2005 because a feasible and timely antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program was not implemented, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Sweet justice for doctor Living with AIDS # 370
Justice is not always swift. But even after a bitter seven-year long labour dispute the taste of justice becomes sweeter when, as in the case of former Mpumalanga doctor Malcolm Naude, a court finds that your dismissal was unfair and orders your former employer to pay you a lump sum and to foot the bill for your legal costs.
2008 Global Conference On Methamphetamine
The 2008 Global Conference on Methamphetamine was recently held in Prague. The objective was to provide an arena for the world's preeminent scientists, leaders, and professionals working on issues related to methamphetamine to gather to discuss the intersection between methamphetamine use, public health, law enforcement, and civil society.
Pholo’s agonising wait is over Living with AIDS # 369
Last week, just before taking his twice yearly tests to check his viral load and CD 4 cells, Pholokgolo Ramothwala told us how he gets scared each time he has to do the tests. The agonising wait for the results is now over and this week, Pholo tells us how it all went.
Matthias Rath: The human cost
Guardianfilms has produced a documentary on how vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath persuaded South African Aids patients to stop taking their prescribed drugs - and use his vitamins - with terrible consequences.
SANAC invigorated by political changes
The SA National AIDS Council plans dynamic AIDS Day including possible 15-minute work stoppages, and the Development Bank of SA takes over secretariat to improve efficiency.
Mpumalanga healthcare critical
Friday, 5pm, Standerton Hospital, Mpumalanga province - say you're driving on the nearby N3 to Durban. Say there's an accident. You'd better pray the ambulance doesn't bring you here.
Provinces struggle with drug-resistant TB
Health officials countrywide are battling to cope with the growing numbers of patients with drug-resistant TB, and provinces are divided about whether to hospitalise all patients or not.
Many STEPs away from an AIDS Vaccine
The failure of the STEP trial (Merck AD5 candidate vaccine) loomed large over last week high-level AIDS Vaccine meeting in Cape Town as delegates tried to look ahead and remain positive about the prospects of discovering an AIDS vaccine.
AIDS tops Minister’s agenda
Improving our track record in dealing with HIV and AIDS is one of two key priority areas that the new Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, says she will focus on in the next six months.