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.
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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
Rights & public health
Living with AIDS # 283
Our last 'Living with AIDS' feature explored the debate for and against making the HIV test a routine procedure offered to anyone attending a health facility. This week, we look at routine testing in relation to human rights.
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Deputies bring new energy to HIV/AIDS
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge emerge as new powers in government HIV/AIDS plan.
A testing question
Living with AIDS # 282
The burden of HIV on South African society has got the country asking the question: How can more people be encouraged to test for HIV? One school of thought is for the introduction of a routine opt-out model, while another is in favour of the current Voluntary Counselling and Testing option.
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Tracking progress
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The national Department of Health recently revealed that about 179 000 people were accessing antiretroviral therapy through the public health system. Just over 31 000 were on the waiting list for treatment. Gauteng is responsible for treating about a third of all those on ARVs. The province's MEC for Health reports back on AIDS treatment.
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DoH wakes up to XDR TB
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A two-day meeting on extensively drug-resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) has resolved that in the absence of quicker diagnostics and new medication to treat TB in all its forms, national TB programmes need more strengthening, especially in the face of HIV/AIDS.
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Playing catch up with XDR-TB
South Africa has become one of the first countries to ask the World Health Organisation (WHO) for help to fight against extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB).
Hip surgery despite the odds
Against the odds, a small rural hospital with a zealous clinical head performs complicated hip replacement operations.
EC health department takes over largest HIV rural programme
One of the country's largest rural HIV/AIDS programmes was officially handed over to the Eastern Cape health department on Thursday in a ceremony held in Lusikisiki.
Activist journalist gunned down
Aids activists and journalists are mourning the death of Omololu Falobi, founding member and the director of Journalists against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria. He died from injuries sustained in an armed robbery on Thursday.
‘Work it out for yourself’
Less than a quarter of young people between 15 and 24 have ever tested for HIV, according to research by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Human Sciences Research Council. Now, popular jeans label Levis Strauss is making an effort to get the 'Know Your HIV Status' message to appeal to the youth.
TB programme a failure because patients ‘not educated’
Government's TB programme is failing because it has not educated patients about their treatment in the way that HIV patients have been educated.
Rath apology
On 23 July, Health-e wrote an article about Dr Matthais Rath's court case in Germany, based on a report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ this week retracted the story. As result, Health-e has removed the story from its website and apologises to Dr Rath for publishing the allegations.
Battlefield of the 21st Century
Natalspruit Hospital's wards used to resemble a battlefield as healthworkers treated those wounded in political battles on the East Rand in the 1980s. Now healthworkers are confronted with another struggle as they are overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people seeking treatment for HIV and Aids.