People living with disabilities are often left out of HIV programs despite the fact that they are disproportionately at risk. Treatment Action Campaign activists say that, unless this is addressed, South Africa will struggle to reach the 90-90-90 target set by UNAids.
On the eve of South Africa’s national AIDS conference taking place in Durban this week, Health-e News has found that people are defaulting on their ARVs and posing a risk to others.
The country's most influential AIDS advocacy organisations have announced they may withdraw from SANAC, following allegations of corruption.
HIV positive teenagers in the Northern Cape have started defaulting on their treatment because of the difficulties they encounter as they regularly have to miss school in order to fetch their medication.
COMMENT: In the wake of the World Health Organisation electing its first African leader, TB-survivor Ingrid Oxley writes that fighting TB should be a priority.
Many South Africans don't earn enough to afford healthy foods and end up with 'lifestyle' diseases like diabetes. Noma-Afrika is a domestic worker whose story illustrates that inequality permeates our diets too.
Government does not stop trying to reduce road accidents because tow truck drivers will lose their jobs, so why are job losses the main focus of the sugary drinks tax?
The new R17-million 4th Avenue Clinic facility under construction in Alexandra is unlikely to be finished on time due to numerous delays as well as construction employees repeatedly arriving drunk for work.
LIMPOPO – While the number of patients reporting to clinics and hospitals with malaria in Mopani is dropping, the provincial health department remains concerned as the battle to end the current outbreak continues.
While recent reports on the murder of part-time student Karabo Mokoena - whose body was discovered after she was burnt to death with acid with a tyre around her neck - have had South Africans reeling in horror, another equally disturbing murder has passed quietly by.
KWA-ZULU NATAL - Traditional healers in KwaZulu Natal have been trained by the provincial Department of Health (DoH) to counsel, examine and test their patients impacted by HIV/Aids and TB.
The City of Johannesburg is launching an emergency measles vaccination campaign following after 11 cases of the the illness have been reported in Gauteng.
SA’s grandmothers are breadwinners in their old age, and their inability to access decent healthcare quickly impacts on their children, grandchildren and their entire communities.
A pregnant woman, who was sent home after arriving at her local clinic with severe abdominal pains, gave birth to a healthy baby girl in the street a short while later.
Months after authorities were alerted to the plight of a severely neglected 25 year-old handicapped man, nothing has been done to help him.
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