As tertiary institutions reopen across the country, the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SANCA) has issued a strong warning to students to steer clear of performance-enhancing drugs.
About a million children develop tuberculosis (TB) annually around the world and when they do, they are often forced to try to take tiny handfuls of adult-sized tablets for months. Now, local researchers are looking at ways to make TB treatment for kids shorter and easier.
Diagnosed blind and mentally disabled as a baby, Prince Makhado has waited a decade to receive the disability grant that could help his family make ends meet. Now, the Makhado family's wait is over.
Co-written by South African journalist and writer Liz McGregor, “No Valley Without Shadows” recounts the battle for HIV treatment in South Africa.
The approval of patents related to a breast cancer drug has allegedly given pharmaceutical giant Roche a near monopoly on a life-saving. When the price of life may be as much as R500,000, your bank balance may be a matter of life and death.
Recent violent demarcation protests in Limpopo’s Vuwani area shuttered schools and barred access to local health facilities.
Dozens of activists and patients picketed today outside the Johannesburg meeting of a United Nations high level panel on access to medicines. Activists have demanded governments fund more drug research and development.
Conducted on behalf of South African National Department of Health, the study found an HIV prevalence rates of as high as about 72 percent among the country’s female sex workers.
South Africa has just announced that thousands of HIV-negative sex workers will be eligible to receive antiretrovirals (ARV) to help prevent them from becoming infected with HIV. Here are five things you should know about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.
More than three million South Africans are on antiretrovirals (ARVs) today but even the world’s largest HIV treatment programme has been unable to reach those who live in society’s forgotten corners where HIV thrives among darkness and death.
South Africa has become one of the world's first countries to begin rolling out pre-exposure prophylaxis as well as 'test and treat' to sex workers as it launches Africa’s first plan to prevent and treat HIV among sex workers.
One pill a day will soon help keep thousands of sex workers HIV-free as South Africa is expected to announce today that it will provide antiretrovirals to thousands HIV-negative sex workers in a bid to keep them HIV free.
Conducted in 2013, the country’s latest antenatal survey finds an HIV prevalence rate of about 30 percent among pregnant women.
Sanele Sano Ngcobo is a clinical associate. He pens this letter to Former President Thabo Mbeki in the wake of Mbeki’s latest letter attempting to explain his controversial stance on HIV.
Former President Thabo Mbeki has defended his controversial stance on HIV, which has been blamed for the deaths of at least 330,000 South Africans. For Health-e News Managing Editor Kerry Cullinan, Mbeki's letter finally answers a question that's haunted her for years.
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