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
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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
An opportunity to find love Living with AIDS # 313
In 2003, Ben Sassman, a Capetonian now living in Johannesburg, dug deep into his own pocket and started the world's first ever dating site for people living with HIV. Four years later, despite few financial resources, the site continues to connect those seeking love and acceptance in a world that constantly rejects them.
HIV/AIDS in Ngwavuma
Ngwavuma, in the north of KwaZulu-Natal province near the Swaziland border, has been hard-hit by HIV/AIDS. The resulting problem is the increase of children-headed households.
Orphan turns the table on misfortune
Ten years after being orphaned, Nathi Ndlazi has made a remarkable success of his life.
Improved pneumonia vaccine, but not for poor
The high cost of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV)-which fights the bacteria that cause pneumonia and meningitis in young children - makes it inaccessible to the poor.
Self-less gogos Living with AIDS # 312
They should have given up working long ago and now be enjoying their retirement after careers spanning more than 60 years combined. But retired nursing sister Mrs Seabela and Mrs Khumalo, a retired social worker, have come back from retirement to help the sick, especially those with AIDS.
AIDS ‘ a new way to access govt grant? Living with AIDS # 311
Debate is raging about some people using unconventional methods to access the government's social grants. Some claim that a number of people with AIDS, who upon severe illness can qualify for a temporary disability grant, stop taking their antiretrovirals out of fear that they might forfeit the grants once their state of health improves.
Court restores order in Khayelitsha health services
Dismissed health workers will offer their services to Khayelitsha's Site B health facility in the morning following an interim interdict by the Cape High Court ordering the health department to restore reasonable functioning of services in the area.
Doctors For Life accused of sabotaging traditional healers
Traditional healers' are accusing medic group, Doctors For Life, of opposing every attempt aimed at giving traditional healers the same legal recognition as that of Western medical practitioners.
Willingly courting danger or not? Living with AIDS # 310
Being young is often associated with risky behaviour - and research is showing that in South Africa the youth often take astounding sexual risks. But is this intentional dare-devilish behaviour?
Is AIDS Denialism Defeated?
The new urgency with which the government has started to address AIDS is like rain falling after a long drought. But it will take superhuman, united efforts to implement the country's new HIV/AIDS National Strategic Plan (NSP) and repair the damage done by years of government inaction, denial and simple incompetence.
SETA CEO suspended ‘ allegedly for blowing the whistle on board
The CEO of the R146-million Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA) has been suspended, allegedly for 'gross misconduct' ' yet he claims it is because he questioned his board's operations, particularly huge payments made to some board members.