Nono Simelela: Resignation and resurrection
On the eve of international AIDS Day, Dr Nono Simelela, Special Advisor to the Deputy President of South Africa, speaks about working under Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
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Video: Tuck shops culprits in rising Childhood Obesity
As Childhood Obesity rates in South Africa continue to soar, experts say the unhealthy food on offer in school tuck shops is partly to blame.
Sugary drinks fuel taxi drivers
Taxi drivers spend long hours on the road which often leaves them with very little time to consider a healthy diet, so they turn to sugary drinks for energy and sustenance.
Superbugs baffle many South Africans
Preventing antibiotic resistance puzzles many at a time where momentum is growing to address this growing public health threat.
Video: No quick fix for overcoming Obesity
Manie Pretorius used to be a sports enthusiast who weighed just 70 kilograms. Just a few years and a knee injury later, Pretorius weighed almost 200 kilograms. He had become obese and his state of health was on the decline.
Diabetes and inequality: Most Africans undiagnosed
Almost a century after the discovery of insulin diabetes is still killing many people, especially those in poorer nations.
Diet denialism on Diabetes Day
Today is International Diabetes Day and the rate of type 2 diabetes in South Africa has increased by over two-thirds in just five years, mostly as a result of poor diet.
SA kids need family support to avoid drugs
Children are more likely to turn to drugs when their parents are absent in the home, according to Soul City.
Diabetes support group finds strength in numbers
This National Diabetes Month, we visit a diabetes support group that meets monthly to talk, learn and help each other to live with Diabetes.
The vet and the wildebeest
Tuberculosis can be passed from animals to people, a British vet tells Health-e how he struggled to get diagnosed and believes the problem of zoonotic TB is a biggesr problem in Africa than most people realise.
Eating soil has become an addiction for many African women
WHILE eating soil has become an addiction for many African women in KwaZulu Natal, and other provinces around South Africa – it is a health issue triggered by iron and mineral deficiencies and can be treated.
Much shorter TB treatment offers hope
There is hope for people living with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as the “gruelling” two-year treatment with “terrible side-effects” such as deafness can now be successfully shortened to just nine months.
Cancer: It’s all about the price tag
Dr Marais, CEO of the Independent Clinical Oncology Network (ICON), examines the high cost of cancer in South Africa and the financial impact on the patient and practitioner.
Underfunding ‘nightmare’ hampers the global TB battle
There is a “nightmare of underfunding” for tuberculosis (TB), described by experts as “the greatest infectious disease killer on the planet”.
XDR TB trial saves lives
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is usually a death sentence. But a breakthrough South African trial announced at the World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool last week may have changed this.