Barbara Hogan faces the media
Barbara Hogan faced the media for the first time this week following her whirlwind promotion to one of the country's toughest portfolios.
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Use more modern malaria methods, urges MSF
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has made an urgent call for the wider implementation of the newer and more effective anti-malaria strategies in an effort to save lives.
New health minister means end of govt AIDS ‘denialism’
New Health Minister Barbara Hogan and deputy Dr Molefi Sefularo are renowned for hard work and integrity
WHO bans SA manufactured generics
GENEVA - The World Health Organisation on Monday warned customers not to buy drugs made by Swiss pharma giant Novartis's Sandoz generics unit in South Africa after an inspection revealed more than 40 faults.
HIV and TB must be treated together, study shows
Patients with tuberculosis and HIV are twice as likely to survive if they are treated for both conditions at the same time, than those who are first treated for TB.
HIV/AIDS and lesbian women
The sexual rights and health needs of lesbian women have been largely overlooked both in public and scholarly discourses as well as at the level of health care service delivery. Opinion piece by Melanie Judge and Delene van Dyk
National survey to measure and manage HIV risk in universities Living with AIDS # 366
For the first time ever, research is underway to determine the impact of HIV on South African university students and staff.
Breathing in Captivity
As more and more South Africans get infected with tuberculosis, government programmes that once could be counted on to bring TB under control are no longer adequate.
Desperate Doctors
Doctors in KZN healthcare facilities battle against the Department of Health.
How Clive found his gift Living with AIDS # 365
'HIV has probably been one of the biggest gifts that have ever been given to me' writes Clive Harvey Fox, a 51 year old Capetonian in his book, 'Finding my Gift.'
Waiting for a donor to give her freedom
It all seems like old hat for Jennifer-Joyce Hendricks. She walks into the open ward, places her file on the shelf, greets the sister, slips her shoes off for the weigh-in and takes her seat in one of the black lazy-boy chairs.
Social worker makes tough decisions
Whichever way you try to look at it - Lungi Hlakudi has one of the toughest jobs imaginable. As assistant social work manager at Groote Schuur Hospital, Hlakudi is a critical cog in deciding whether kidney patients are approved, or not, for lifesaving dialysis. And more often than not, he is the one who has to tell desperately ill patients when they have failed to make the cut.
Clinging to life for her children’s sake
For Chesna Cupido, it's been a long road to get to this point. Suffering her first bout of kidney disease 19 years ago, ill health, exhaustion and pain has become part of her daily reality, but she's clear that it's her children that motivate her to return to Groote Schuur time and time again.
Preventable disease costing lives
While HIV and tuberculosis are hitting the headlines daily, thousands are quietly dying of lifestyle diseases, many which can be prevented if diagnosed and treated early.
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