Issued on 7 January, the Department of Health circular offers guidance to clinicians regarding the use of two-in-one combination antiretrovirals (ARV) following a change in ARV tendering.
Imagine being in labour, vulnerable and scared and being told by hospital staff to clean up your own blood. For years, reports of women being abused during labour at public health facilities have made headlines. Now, a kinder, gentler birth for many South Africa women may come from an unlikely place.
Released in December, this 56-page policy outlines the management of patient safety incidents, including the provision of feedback to patients, families and clinicians, as well as the sharing of lessons learned.
Some Gauteng patients living with HIV are going without a life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) as the province suffers a shortage of the ARV lamivudine.
As parents and students nationwide celebrate – or bemoan – yesterday’s matric results, education remains out of reach for more than half-a-million children living with disabilities who may never get the chance to write their matric exams.
The 10-page guide provides an introduction to the role medical regulatory authorities play in access to tuberculosis (TB) medicines.
Medical male circumcision campaigns have an added bonus, say HIV activists who add that as more and more men line up for “the snip”– more men are learning their HIV statuses.
The 57-page strategy document focuses on six broad goals including preventing childhood obesity, enabling access to healthy food and promoting physical activity.
Petrus Ravhuhali, 96, says he’s reaping the rewards of smart choices made in his youth as he approaches his 100th birthday.
Thieves recently broke into a Douglas clinic, making off with stocks of antiretrovirals (ARVs) and the clinic computer.
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is set to unveil a new, community-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Daveyton.
After months of erratic supply of its antiretroviral (ARV) Aluvia in South Africa, international pharmaceutical company AbbVie will now allow generic manufacturers to produce the drug to help safeguard supplies, according to an announcement made today.
A Chinese dried fruit delicacy is selling like hot cakes in the Free State as women believe the fruit will give them tighter, more youthful vaginas. Experts say the obsession with the mythical tight vagina says as about our understanding of anatomy as it does about our times.
Mzanzi Magic’s recent “Our Perfect Wedding” saga thrust statutory rape into the national headlines but just how many cases of statutory rape are reported each year in South Africa is anyone’s guess.
Produced by South Africa’s The Open Medicine Project, the Department of Health app gives health care workers’ easy access to the country’s Primary Health Care Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List.
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