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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Treasury officials are sent to hospital to investigate donor funds for dual therapy as KwaZulu-Natal MEC intensifies her campaign against Manguzi Hospital.
Lobby groups are concerned about the high numbers of women who die of breast cancer every year in South Africa, despite the fact that the disease is one of the most curable cancers if detected early.
The Cape High Court landed the final nail in the coffin of vitamin salesman Matthias Rath's South African operations and delivered a blow to organisations peddling untested remedies when it ruled that the German doctor's clinical trials were unlawful.
Researchers have found that the number of sexual partners that people in southern Africa have ' usually all at the same time - could be the reason why the sub-continent has the highest HIV infection rate.
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