Naheng tsa Zambia le Uganda ha se ntho esele. E boela e le setlwaedi toropong ya San Francisco, Amerika, pakeng tsa baratani ba banna. Jwale ho se ho etsahala mona Aforika Borwa. Re bua ka hore balekane ba nke mohato wa ho fumana tsebo ka tshwaetso ya HIV le ho itlhatlhoba mmoho ka nako e le nngwe.
Read More » Balekane ba kgothalletswa ho itlhatlhoba ‘€“ Karolo 1It happens in Zambia and Uganda. It'€™s also common practice among same-sex male couples in San Francisco, in the United States. Now it'€™s being introduced in South Africa. We'€™re talking about HIV counselling and testing for couples. Health-e News Service reports.
Read More » Couple counselling for HIVLiving with AIDS #187Ha o qala ho iphumana o na le tshwaetso ya HIV motho o atisa ho fihlelwa ke nako ya bodutu le ho touta. Health-e News Service e tlaleha ka mokgatlo wa ho qala kontinenteng ya Aforika eo sepheo sa ona e leng ho thusa baruti ba nang le tshwaetso ena kapa ba amehileng ha bohloko ka tlasa boima ba kokwana hloko ena.
Read More » Baruti le HIV ‘€“ Karolo 4A consultative workshop involving the national health minister, her provincial counterparts, scientists, researchers and other experts has agreed that nevirapine will remain as therapy to prevent the transmission of HIV from a pregnant women to her child. A decision on alternative therapy will be taken once further research has been conducted.
Read More » Nevirapine to stay, for nowRushed in as a last minute substitute speaker for the Minister of Health, the head of the national health department's HIV/AIDS cluster, Dr Rose Mulumba, has told students that prohibitive costs were the reason for the long delay in providing antiretroviral treatment in the public health sector.
Read More » Counting the costThe greatest shortage among health professionals is in the nursing sector which has a 25 percent vacancy rate, but a failure to address human resource issues at all levels is undermining the entire public health system.
Read More » Exodus of health skills substantialMore than 20 years into the AIDS epidemic and UNAIDS estimates that worldwide some 38 million people are living with HIV. AIDS has killed an estimated 20 million people. At the closure of the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel pleaded with world leaders, politicians and the business community to combat the epidemic.
Read More » Mandela & Machel plead for AIDS supportA prison story from Nelson Mandela captivated journalists at the world AIDS conference as the former president used the opportunity to drive home the link between HIV and TB.
Read More » Mandela talks about his TBThe Medicines Control Council has said that it did not foresee any disruption to the mother to child prevention HIV programme in South Africa in the light of the announcement that the antiretroviral drug nevirapine was not recommended as a single treatment
Read More » MCC says no disruption to MTCT progammeThe Treatment Action Campaign was given a key platform at the XV International AIDS Conference to address delegates on the confusion regarding the South African health department'€™s position on the use of nevirapine.
Read More » TAC appeals to AIDS conferenceThe World Health Organisation has high expectations of what South Africa'€™s care and treatment plan for HIV/AIDS can mean for encouraging other African countries to introduce similar programmes.
Read More » WHO wants 500 000 on treatment in SAHopes for a controversy-free South African presence at the 15th International AIDS conference were dashed when the health minister opened the South African stand at the conference.
Read More » Health minister sparks controversyThe XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, sounds a call to further action in the global fight against HIV and AIDS.
Read More » AIDS Conference – another building blockAs the national comprehensive programme to treat people ill with AIDS conditions unfolds, one of the challenges facing government, civil society organisations and individuals in the fight against AIDS is not a new one. It'€™s to seek to improve programmes aimed at ensuring that those who are uninfected remain free of HIV. Health-e News Service looks at why new methods are needed to help enhance the Department of Health'€™s ABC HIV prevention message.
Read More » ABC isn’€™t that easyLiving with AIDS # 181The Health Department has recently launched a new stylish brand of condoms called '€˜Choice'€™ in the hope that it will encourage greater condom usage. But as Health-e reports, for women the branding of condoms means very little. What'€™s most important is their ability to negotiate when and how they would like to have sex. The names of the women interviewed in this report are not their real names.
Read More » Condoms ‘€“ short-changing womenLiving with AIDS # 180