Healthworkers fail to test sick children for HIV
Despite HIV/AIDS being the main killer of young children, health workers at KwaZulu-Natal hospitals are simply failing to test their young patients or put them on antiretroviral treatment
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ARV rollout fails children
Research at 15 hospitals shows that only 3 percent of children who died were on antiretroviral medication - although half were clinically indicated to need ARVs
Caring for minds, bodies and souls Living with AIDS # 318
For four days of the week, Sister Corona, a Catholic nun, travels the villages of Modjadjiskloof district, outside Tzaneen in Limpopo, to minister to the needs of the sick.
We followed her on one of her trips to provide home-based care.
The plight of AIDS orphans
The government'€™s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
The plight of AIDS orphans
The government'€™s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
The plight of undocumented AIDS orphans
The government'€™s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
Implementation of AIDS plan could be faster, admits Deputy President
While there was urgency around the development of the New Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS, there has been a marked slowdown in its implementation
Widespread condemnation of deputy health minister’€™s dismissal
Internationally and at home, a range of reputable organisations have condemned Thabo Mbeki's decision to remove the deputy who built bridges with civil society and scientists
Cancer can be beaten
Healthy lifestyle, screening and testing can help prevent cancer.
The Health Minister’€™s charm offensive Living with AIDS # 317
At the recent official launch of the Department of Health'€™s antenatal HIV survey, the Minister of Health Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, quite uncharacteristically invited the media to ask any questions to the department'€™s officials who were present. We share some of these questions and answers with you.
What’€™s the fore-skin got to do with it? Living with AIDS # 315
Three studies conducted in Africa, which suggest that medical male circumcision can reduce men'€™s risk of contracting HIV, have reinvigorated the hype around HIV prevention. But for some, the finding raises even more concerns.
Fact: The national rate for stillbirths is a disgrace
The political furore about Frere Hospital obscures one vital fact: our stillbirth, perinatal and neonatal death rates are unacceptably high
Rocking for AIDS treatment
Rock star legend Annie Lennox has gathered 23 fellow female artists for a song which she hopes will give momentum to the urgent need to get South Africans, especially women and children, onto AIDS treatment and raise money for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
Young girls used as sex workers
A Khayelitsha woman and her young boyfriend are facing child trafficking and rape-related charges after they ran a brothel from their shack using girls aged between 10 and 14 years.
Pretoria dithers while babies are infected
Despite a number of hospitals being ready to implement 'dual therapy' to prevent mother-to-child HIV infection, the national Department of Health has not yet made it national policy