Statistics from the Cancer Association of SA (Cansa) show that one in every 36 women in South Africa has breast cancer, now the most common cancer among South African women. ANSO THOM reports.

Two organisations, both representing South African doctors and specialists, have in the past week come out in support of the widely accepted and scientifically proven theory that HIV causes AIDS.

When Agnes Nyamayarwo'€™s son, Peter, was four years old, he discovered from a boy at his school that his mother was HIV positive."This boy warned the other children not to share Peter'€™s food because they would get AIDS from him," says Nyamayarwo."I felt very bad that he heard it from school. We think we are protecting them [by not telling them about our HIV status] but somehow they get to know

"The success the world has had in protecting children'€™s rights and realising human potential is captured far more eloquently in flesh and bone than in concrete or steel, far more tellingly in the height of children than that of skyscrapers."

What is cholera, how is it transmitted, what can be done to prevent its spread? This summary answers all your questions about the disease.

Within the space of less than a year, a doctor has managed to turn a Mpumalanga hospital and its clinics into one of the jewels of the public health care system. ANSO THOM reports.

In the latest South African Airways advertisement the airline talks about the one thing that gives it more pleasure than flying South Africans to a foreign destination: flying them home. "Because the grass may not always be greener on the other side," the narrator says.This is a concept that young community service doctor Colin Wittstock can relate to.