Parliament is hearing submissions on the Children'€™s Bill this week. Among those appearing before the Social Development Portfolio Committee is a group of children known as Dikwankwetla, or Children in Action, who made submissions based on their concerns.
Veteran ANC leader Albertina Sisulu'€™s only dream is to get help for the needy, especially AIDS orphans. The 86-year old great grandmother says HIV and AIDS is an alarming problem, which is taking its toll on communities, but it is not the first pandemic to challenge society.
Bekeng ena re boela re utlwa ho tswa ho moruti Christo Greyling, moeletsi wa mokgatlo wa World Vision ka tsa lefu la Phamokathe kontinenteng ya Afrika. O phetela Health-e News Service ka moo tshwaetso ya HIV e ba amang le mohatsae.
Reverend Christo Greyling, HIV/AIDS advisor for World Vision in Africa, speaks further with Health-e News about how he has lived with HIV for 20 years and how living with the virus has affected his relationship with his wife of 16 years who remains HIV negative.
Half of the country'€™s nurses are working in private hospitals and some 42 000 posts are vacant. HIV/AIDS is worsening the distribution of health personnel around the country. These are some of the findings of the 2004 South African Health Review.
Na ekaba moithuti ka tsa bodumedi a ka kgona ho tsebisa moratuwa wa hae le kereke ya hae jwang ha a iphumana a na le kokwana hloko ya HIV? Boo e ne e le bothata ba moruti Christo Greyling ka selemo sa 1987 ha dingaka di mo tsebisa hore o ena le tshwaetso eo. Health-e News Service e ile ya buisana le moruti Greyling ka tsa bophelo ba hae le kokwana hloko ena lemong tsena tsohle. Ena ke karolo ya pele ho tse pedi paleng ya tsa bophelo ba moruti Greyling.
How does a 23 year-old Theology student admit to his fiancé and his church that he is HIV positive? That was Reverend Christo Greyling'€™s dilemma in 1987 when he was diagnosed with HIV. Health-e News Service spoke with him about how he'€™s lived with HIV all this time. This is the first of two parts of Rev. Greyling'€™s story.
Overburdened and under-resourced, William Slater Centre is the only public institution of its kind that helps problem teens in the Western Cape.
The 15th International AIDS Conference might be over but the fight against HIV/AIDS will be with us for many years. Health-e talked to delegates from South Africa, France, Tanzania and United States and asked them their views about the conference.
Growth in spending on health personnel masks the abolition of 19 000 filled posts while spending levels on health care per person has declined since the mid-1990s.
South Africa'€™s northwestern neighbour has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. With 38 percent of its 1,7 million population infected with HIV, Botswana has shown determined leadership in providing free antiretroviral therapy to all its citizens who need it.
More young adults, children under five, babies and women in childbirth are dying now than a few years back, both as a result of HIV/AIDS and the deterioration of health services In addition, chronic diseases associated with poor diet, smoking, excessive drinking and lack of exercise are on the increase.
HIV/AIDS and lifestyle diseases are the chief causes of death among South Africans, doctors and nurses continue to leave the country and health spending is not keeping pace with what is needed. All in all, we'€™re not looking too healthy.
The Medicines Control Council, has recommended to the Health Ministry that it stop using nevirapine as a single agent in the prevention of mother-to-child-HIV-transmission. Health-e caught up with the Registrar of medicines Precious Matsoso, at the XV International AIDS
Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, and asked her why the MCC made the decision.
Young people around the globe are at the heart of the AIDS epidemic. Thirty two percent (12.1 million) of under 25 year-olds are HIV-positive, according to UNAIDS. Despite the disproportionate risks and burdens they face, young people are also the world'€™s best hope in the fight against the epidemic. But voices of youth were still marginal at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
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