A wide grin peeks out from under the woman's floppy, red sunhat as Jeaneth Shirindzi puts her arm around the shy woman's neck and draws her closer. 'This is one of my patients who are on ARVs,' Shirindzi proclaims proudly, herself sporting a less flashy navy-blue sunhat.
Three teachers from different schools that are miles apart in rural Tzaneen share one thing in common: having to deal with growing numbers of learners who have no parents.
In what was once a productive farming area of Calais, a deep rural village of Tzaneen in Limpopo, a Catholic missionary property abandoned for over a decade is now home to over 80 orphaned and sick children.
The National Strategic Plan (NSP) target to place another 120 000 adults and 70 000 children on antiretrovirals by the end of the year was not simply a government matter, Health department Director-General Thami Mseleku told journalists yesterday.
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
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
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 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 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 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.
While there was urgency around the development of the New Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS, there has been a marked slowdown in its implementation
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
Healthy lifestyle, screening and testing can help prevent cancer.
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.
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.
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