DR-TB patients need family support
Home-based care, even for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, is working well at a pilot project in Khayelitsha started in late 2007.
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ARV moratorium in Free State was never lifted ‘ TAC
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says the Free State moratorium on the provision of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for new patients was never lifted. The provincial government imposed the moratorium on the lifesaving drugs in November of 2008.
Durban to get world’s most advanced TB research centre
With virtually all KwaZulu-Natal health facilities registering cases of extensively drug-resistant TB, the multi-million rand international research facility will be well placed to find research subjects.
Papal Comments Regarding Condoms Angers AIDS Activists
Pope Benedict XVI is in Africa this week (17th-23rd March) on his first trip to the continent as Pontiff and is already angering AIDS activists with his anti-condom stance.
OPINION: Snipping away at HIV: male circumcision and HIV prevention
In this opinion piece Nathan Geffen and Paul Booth make the case for the male circumcision debate to put to rest and for the urgent development of an ethical national voluntary male medical circumcision policy.
OPINION: The Victims of ‘Success’
Somewhere around 1 November 2008 the death penalty was reintroduced in the Free State. Quietly, with the stroke of a pen, an official in the Department of Health in Bloemfontein signed a memorandum introducing a moratorium declaring that no new patients should be put on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment. This was to be for the next five months ' until the new financial year, April 1 2009 -- when the funds would return.
Manto uses UN meeting to call for ARV monitoring
SA NGOs condemn statements made by former health minister at UN session of the Commission on the Status of Women looking at caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS
One love could lower infection rate
JOHANNESBURG:(PlusNews) - 2009 might just be the year that HIV prevention finally takes centre stage in South Africa. Years of workshops and speeches in which AIDS experts and politicians talked about the need to prioritise prevention are, at last, translating into action.
Lesotho nurses show the way in HIV and TB treatment
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report on the feasibility of a groundbreaking nurse-driven HIV and TB care and treatment programme following a three year stint in Lesotho.
MCP as culture Living with AIDS # 381
Does having more than one sexual partner form part of tradition? What role does the practice play in the transmission of HIV?
AIDS no longer a disease of ‘young people’
The Bulletin of the World Health Organisation has published an article drawing attention to the little-explored reality of increasing numbers of people over the age of 50 infected with HIV.
30 dying every day in the Free State – HIV Clinicians
At least 30 HIV positive people have died in the Free State every day following a moratorium the province placed on initiating any new patients on anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, according to conservative figures from the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society.
Comfort Of Strangers
Today in our series on EVERYDAY HEROES we meet a woman who represents the silent army of heroes countrywide who are in frontline of the fights against HIV and AIDS. Home-based caregivers. Although it's a hard job where patients don't always get better and there's no personal reward, caregivers form the backbone of patient care in a health system that is overburdened and under-resourced.
FS thrown a desperate lifeline
Thousands of desperate HIV positive patients in the Free State have been thrown a lifeline with news that millions has been secured to procure anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs needed to keep them alive.
‘I’ve seen other people die and it scares me’
Nontskolo Tantiso had been feeling unwell for several months, but attempts to establish whether she may need antiretroviral treatment have seen her being sent from pillar to post.