DoH to revise ART guidelines Living with AIDS # 359
The Department of Health is reviewing its guidelines for antiretroviral treatment, and at the heart of discussions is whether people should be able to start taking medication sooner.
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People with HIV may get medicine sooner
The Department of Health may allow people living with HIV to get antiretroviral drugs earlier than at present.
Mseleku comments – Human rights experts approach Mbeki and Zuma
Nineteen of the world's foremost health and human rights experts have condemned health department Director General Thami Mseleku's recent comment that 'human rights are not relevant to the considerations of health policy in a developmental state'.
New MDR TB test is a breakthrough – experts
Experts say the discovery of the new Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB diagnostic tool will go a long way in fighting the scourge.
Top experts examine ARV access and health systems
South Africa's top researchers, policy makers, managers and providers have released the outcome of a roundtable discussion held last year, where they grappled with antiretroviral access and the health system's capacity to cope with the increasing demand.
Billions still at risk because of poor sanitation
Every day, over 2,5-billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and half of these practise open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of all, according to a report issued by the WHO/UNICEF.
US moves to allow HIV-positive immigrants
The United States Senate has repealed the entry and immigration ban on HIV-positive non-citizens.
The challenge of implementing prisoner guidelines Living with AIDS # 358
Last week we reported on the launch of guidelines developed by the Southern African HIV Clinicians' Society to prevent and treat TB and HIV in prisons. Their implementation will not be easy.
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.
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.
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.
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.