As the year draws to a close, there is still uncertainty over HIV and AIDS in government circles. In a move that could put her on the firing line, the Deputy Health Minister has dared to criticise both Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and President Thabo Mbeki.
In our series profiling South Africa's 'AIDS legends' of the last 25 years, we meet Supreme Court of Appeal Judge, Mr Justice Edwin Cameron. His selfless support of the cause against AIDS is inextricably linked to his own infection with the HI-virus.
If you're not on medical aid but can afford to pay a little for healthcare, a new clinic in central Johannesburg is offering HIV tests for as low as R20. A month's supply of life-saving antiretroviral medication will cost R350.
This Friday, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. In recognition of the occasion, today we start a week-long series profiling some of the most influential South Africans who worked in the AIDS field since it first emerged over 20 years ago. We first meet Prof. Ruben Sher, who used to work for the South African Institute for Medical Research and was turned a celebrity by the media at the time.
Mention the Peri-natal HIV Research Unit to anyone working in the scientific and medical fields of AIDS, and the names Glenda Gray and James McIntyre will pop into mind. For many women, the two are the angels that have saved their babies' lives.
Until a few years ago, Helemina Nangoro (32) did not receive a salary for comforting people while they died of AIDS.
For thirty years, nurses Matilda Ramagole and Evelyn Keswa have been the best of friends. They have witnessed each other's children grow up and supported one other when their husbands past away.
'I am hungry. Can you give me some money for food?' These words have become the norm for Lehlohonolo Mokone, an HIV counsellor who sits in front of his ninth patient for the day at a clinic in Brakpan, on Gauteng's East Rand.
Professor Di McIntyre, chair of government's Pricing Committee, tasked with determining a viable dispensing fee for pharmacists, spoke exclusively to Health-e.
A misleading press statement by the health department has caused confusion over the role of Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) presence in Khayelitsha in the Western Cape.
The woman pulls the navy anorak tighter around her tall frame, turning her face away from the howling southeaster pushing against corrugated iron shacks. She steps inside a dimly lit room where the young man sits up in his bed to meet her.
Around a quarter of South Africans could suffer from mental illness each year, while HIV/AIDS is systematically undermining all the health gains made in the post-apartheid era, according to the SA Health Review.
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.
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.
'Morning Virginia! How are you? How's the Kaletra? Okay?' the diminutive woman hollers across the clinic passage.
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