Opinion: Sex workers essential to meeting new HIV targets
South Africa has committed itself to reaching the world’s latest batch of ambitious targets, but it will not meet them without sex workers, writes Ntokozo Yingwana.
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South Africa moves to ‘test and treat’
Any HIV positive person will be able to get antiretroviral medicine irrespective of their CD4 count by September.
Video: ‘You have to die with dignity’
Millions of South Africans live with serious illness and when the pain becomes too much, many turn to hospice.
Register for MSF’s Scientific Day
Scientific innovation can save lives. Join us and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for South Africa’s first MSF Scientific Day.
Blood on the floor: Women’s deaths a ‘national emergency’
Hundreds of women each year die following caesarean deliveries. With rates of caesarean deliveries climbing, the stage may be set for more deaths to come.
Report: Saving Mothers 2011 – 2013
This 91-page condensed version of South Africa’s latest maternal death audit shows that although maternal deaths are decreasing, worrying trends in the deaths of new and expecting moms persist.
Report: South African Health Review 2016
The Health Systems Trust’s annual publication on health trends and topics in South Africa includes chapters on water and sanitation, eHealth, and sexual and reproductive health.
Medicine, morality on South Africa’s drug routes
When you're a doctor operating along South Africa’s drug routes, anything can happen and when it does, reality and relations can change in an instant, writes one rural doctor.
Policy guidelines: 72-hour Assessment of Involuntary Mental Healthcare Users
These 18-page guidelines list facility requirements for holding mental health patients for 72-hour involuntary assessments as well relevant procedure and guidelines for clinicians.
Policy guidelines: Seclusion and Restraint of Mental Health Care Users
The Department of Health’s guidelines detail how healthcare workers may use seclusion and physical restraint with mental patients and caution that these actions should be seen as a last resort.
North West families turn to food gardens amid food hikes
As drought and a weaker rand conspire to raise food prices, families in the North West may be hardest hit. One family has found a fix for high food prices.
World endorses more ‘war on drugs’
The world’s hardline "war on drugs" has resulted in violence, criminalised drug users and exacerbated HIV and Hepatitis C infection. Yet the UN has just endorsed a similar approach.
Distributing clean needles to curb the spread of HIV
The Step Up Project runs needle exchange programmes with injecting drug users in Cape Town, Durban and Tshwane.
Sugar tax could save South Africa billions
South Africa’s recently announced tax on sugar-sweetened beverages could save South Africa billions if implemented over the next 20 years, according to recent University of Witwatersrand research.
Drugs: World contemplates punishment or rehabilitation
The prohibition of illegal drugs has failed to stop drug use, instead fanning a massive and violent black market. This week, the UN meets to discuss whether its ‘war on drugs’ approach needs to change