ARV targets fall short
Global targets to reach universal access to antiretroviral treatment are vague and abstract and will result in the dealth of millions of people, a civil society report warned this week.
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HIV positive nurse makes huge impact
When soft-spoken theatre nurse Nomalungelo Konza lay critically ill in GF Jooste Hospital's medical ward in 2003, her colleagues prepared for the worst.
Her body weak from tuberculosis, she lay semi-comatose and many believed she would not pull through.
Macassar’s angels
Macassar residents have grown accustomed to seeing the figures of Emma van der Merwe, tall and upright, towering over her colleague Barbara de Wet, walking the streets of the Helderberg suburb, come rain or shine.
Serving ‘Masi’s’ people
'Morning Virginia! How are you? How's the Kaletra? Okay?' the diminutive woman hollers across the clinic passage.
From trauma to Aids
Tambo Memorial Hospital on Gauteng's East Rand used to be over-burdened by alcohol related trauma cases. Today the pressure is primarily related to HIV and AIDS.
Poor TB control equals XDR TB
Over 300 cases of extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have been diagnosed in South Africa and this number is set to rise as the country pays the price for a poor TB control programme that has gone unchecked for years.
Hospitals overwhelmed by dying AIDS patients
The elderly woman, her thinning grey hair swept into a tiny ponytail, kicks her feet under the blue hospital blanket and lets out a long moan. She rocks her head from side to side and wails quietly, before turning onto her side.
Stanger Hospital at the coal face
Forty-nine frozen bodies, some as tiny as chickens, are trussed up in white plastic in cold storage in Stanger Hospital's morgue.
Youth the focus of new AIDS plan
Young people between 15 and 24 have been identified as the priority by the country's new HIV/AIDS strategic plan, due to be presented to the country on Friday (1 Dec).
Gauteng is doing well ‘ but HIV infections continue to grow
Gauteng has the most extensive provincial HIV/AIDS programme in the country, and has more than tripled the number of people on antiretroviral drugs in the past year alone.
Tips for nurses Living with AIDS # 285
Nurses are at the forefront of providing care for HIV-infected patients. A new book, 'The Pocket Guide for HIV and AIDS Nursing Care', aims to sharpen their knowledge and skills as well as address nurses' own struggles with AIDS.
Millions infected with HIV in 2006 – UNAIDS
Two thirds of all persons infected with HIV are living in sub-Saharan Africa ' 24,7-milllion people ' while 2,8-million adults and children became infected this year alone. This is more than all the other regions in the world combined according to the latest figures published in the UNUAIDS/WHO 2006 AIDS Epidemic Update.
Q&A with the Deputy Health Minister
Kerry Cullinan speaks to the Deputy Health Minister, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
The deputy health minister offers a ray of hope after years of garlic and beetroot
With the health minister out of the limelight due to illness, her deputy, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, has stepped out of the shadows with a fresh take on HIV/AIDS.
Beetroot gets the boot as government drafts new HIV plan
Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge talks to Kerry Cullinan about government's 'new energy' on HIV/AIDS