Girls join push against AIDS
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has launched an HIV and AIDS training tool-kit aimed at educating young girls who join the movement about HIV.
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Getting obese kids into shape
Discovery Vitality has introduced a program aimed at encouraging school children to live healthy lifestyles. A survey conducted by the Sport Science Institute of South Africa (SISSA) in 2007 indicates that the level of obesity among South African school children, because of unhealthy diet and lack of exercise, is higher than that of other African countries.
Ensuring healthy prisoners Living with AIDS # 357
The Southern African HIV Clinicians' Society recently published guidelines aimed at the prevention and treatment of HIV and TB in prisons, affirming the rights of prisoners to quality health care.
ALP and TAC hit back after Mseleku’s ‘personal attack’
The AIDS Law Project (ALP) and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have hit back after two senior health department officials attacked one of its senior leader's presentation at the national tuberculosis conference in Durban last week.
Not enough organs to go around
In May last year, little Lara Price lost her battle against liver disease. For three months, her desperate parents, Rennie and Alison, waited in the vain hope that a donor liver would become available for their little girl.
Dare to care (part two) Living with AIDS # 356
This is the last in our two-part conversation with Dr Thys von Mollendorff, author of 'Dare to care', a personal account of how political interference can deny patients the right to appropriate and quality health care.
State has failed the nation on TB
DURBAN - While squabbling over human rights and other issues around HIV, the country allowed the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic to grow out of control and take a hold over the country, AIDS Law Project Executive Director Mark Heywood has told delegates at the South African TB conference.
High death rate among Cape XDR TB patients
Thirty three of the 82 patients with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB admitted at the Brooklyn Chest Clinic in Cape Town have died and only four have been cured.
Poor infection control puts health workers at risk
DURBAN - Workers at health facilities are increasingly infected with tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB) as they come into close and lengthy contact with infected patients, the first national TB conference heard yesterday (Wednesday).
Vitamin A for newborns will save thousands of lives
A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth can reduce the risk of death in the developing world by 15 percent, according to a study released this week.
‘No smoking’ pays off
Smoke-free policies are reducing heart disease related to smoke exposure, the prevalence of smoking in adults and the exposure of both adults and children to second-hand smoke.
Help to get cervical cancer vaccine to women who need it
Hope is at hand for South African women unable to afford a new vaccine to combat cervical cancer as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance) has announced it plans to get the vaccine to high burden populations.
Help to get cervical cancer vaccine to women who need it
Hope is at hand for South African women unable to afford a new vaccine to combat cervical cancer as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance) has announced it plans to get the vaccine to high burden populations.
Dare to care (part one) Living with AIDS # 355
Political interference is increasingly making it difficult for public service health professionals to provide the best quality care to patients. In 'Dare to care', a book to be published next month, Dr Thys von Mollendorff, gives a personal account of how deadly this interference can be.
MEC keeps up pressure on Manguzi
Treasury officials are sent to hospital to investigate donor funds for dual therapy as KwaZulu-Natal MEC intensifies her campaign against Manguzi Hospital.