South African sex workers may have one of the world’s highest HIV prevalence rates and addressing this is just one of six ways South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) CEO Dr Fareed Abdullah says the country can fix its HIV response.
After almost two decades spent fighting for HIV treatment and access to medicines, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) may close its doors due to a severe funding shortage.
Younger men say voluntary medical male circumcision is becoming cool among peers as the country continues rolling out new method.
“Facebook official” may be more common these days than a wedding license for South Africans, who are increasingly forgoing marriage. But shacking up with your love in unwedded bliss may not keep them faithful, new data shows.
South Africa should aim to open a private medical school to address health care needs, said Western Cape MEC for Health Theuns Botha.
Creativity and an understanding of where your patients come from are key to being a successful rural doctor, says Dr Jenny Nash, who this week was named Rural Doctor of the Year.
Children as young as 8 years old in the rural Western Cape are using drugs to escape problems like poverty, HIV and domestic violence, according research presented at the Rural Health Conference currently underway in Worcester.
Patients have accused Soweto’s newly opened Zola-Jabulani Hospital of turning patients away who do not meet “emergency” criteria.
While the Department of Health gears up for the next phase of its vaccine campaign to prevent cervical cancer in young girls, older South African women are left with an ineffective screening programme to prevent the killer cancer.
Hundreds of patient files full of sensitive personal information were recently discovered in the men’s toilet of one of Tshwane’s clinics.
When Lusanda Ngwenya, 13, comes to – he is disorientated. He looks around at the faces of concerned family members and then becomes aware of a new pain somewhere on his body – maybe a knocked limb or a bitten tongue. He has just woken up from one of the seizures that accompany his epilepsy.
A Centurion man claims a Pretoria hospital did not give his mother a bed fast enough, but nurses disagree.
Sometimes surgery is the only intervention that can save obese patients from death caused by diseases such as heart failure, strokes, diabetes and hypertension.
New mothers at Nelspruit’s Rob Ferreira Hospital are on edge following the alleged abduction of a baby girl from the hospital this past weekend.
Soweto’s Mofolo Clinic has been hit by a nationwide stock out of a drug needed to prevent HIV infection in babies.
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