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
The South African furore over nevirapine drowned out some of the other important issues highlighted at the International AIDS conference. Health-e takes a look at some of the global challenges.
Activists, scientists, religious leaders, the youth and civil society organisations spoke of their experiences over the last few days during the final session of the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. Senator Mechai Viravaidhaya, fondly known as the 'Condom King' in Thailand spoke of economically empowering those infected and affected.
Despite the diversion created by the unfortunate and ill timed Nevirapine statements from the South Africa government, the Bangkok AIDS conference has managed to place the urgent need for millions to access lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy on the world agenda. Health-e captures the critical messages from the Thailand conference.
South African scientists attending the AIDS conference in Bangkok have presented evidence showing that resistance to Nevirapine is reduced dramatically six months after the mother has taken the drug. Further evidence suggested that combination therapy was the way forward.
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