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).
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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.
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.
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
Rights & public health
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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
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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.