Simple, affordable life-saving measures, such as exclusive breastfeeding, immunization, insecticide-treated bed nets and vitamin A supplementation, have helped to reduce child deaths in recent years, according to UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 2008 report.
New guidelines to prevent HIV positive mothers from infecting their babies will finally be put to the National Health Council on Friday ' at least a month behind schedule.
An Ugandan study has shown that community volunteers can effectively distribute antiretrovirals in rural areas with around 90% of patients adhering to treatment. This week's Centers for Disease Control newsletter on HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention also reports on the link between Christopher Columbus and the spread of syphilis.
'Personalised medicine' is the hottest trend in wealthy countries, but how do poor countries get access to gene-specific treatment when we can't even get ordinary pills to people?
Bulungula Lodge offers a sustainable way of life within a tight community.
There are no services in Nqileni Village in the Eastern Cape and kids are dying from drinking contaminated water. But a conditional grant for the district was returned untouched to the Treasury
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has come up with a new strategy to empower cancer patients and their families. It has introduced a CD with relevant helpful information about the disease.
The arrival of the first batch of ARVs in June, 2005, at Madwaleni Hospital, in the rural area of Mbashe outside Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape, changed how health-care workers and the community view AIDS.
A single dose of two antiretrovirals given to mothers shortly after giving birth has shown to reduce the chances of the women developing later resistance, a new study from Zambia has shown.
The health indicators, which provide a snapshot of our nation's health, still paint a picture of a violent, racially divided country where women bear the brunt of disease.
Traditional medicine generates almost R3-billion a year and government needs to urgently remove barriers preventing its practitioners from claiming from medical schemes for services rendered.
Whether it's to test a vaccine or a microbicide to reduce HIV risk, clinical trials rely heavily on the goodwill of people. Without them, such trials won't take place. But what motivates people to want to be part of these trials?
South Africa is sitting on a 'future time bomb' as employers remove medical health insurance from employees when they retire.
The recent announcement about the failure of the leading AIDS vaccine candidate developed by Merck & Co. is another in a series of disappointing setbacks in HIV prevention. How we as a global community choose to respond to this news, however, is the real test.
A new organisation supported by US celebrities has caused controversy in northern KwaZulu-Natal, prompting the question: is there enough co-ordination of donor funding of HIV/AIDS?
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