Waiting for treatment
The young woman slowly slides the neatly folded papers from the envelope and gingerly places the three documents on the rickety table.
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Hovering on death’s door
Hundreds of patients are being denied antiretroviral treatment in the Free State. During a visit to Welkom's Bongani Hospital last week Anso Thom and Lungi Langa spoke to three young men who are staring death in the face.
Screening fidelity Living with AIDS # 377
In its current TV series, 'One Love', the non-profit health communication project, Soul City, is promoting the value of men and women being faithful to their partners and dedicating themselves to building one committed relationship.
Free State woes continue
The antiretroviral shortages in the Free State which reached crisis proportions last year when the province ran out of the critical medication are continuing, according to the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
“I made it a resolution to go down with as many men as possible “
KENYA:(PlusNews) - Jane Nyasuguta*, 40, a former teacher living in Nyanza Province, western Kenya, thought she and her husband had a good marriage until she discovered he had a mistress in a neighbouring town. She told IRIN/PlusNews that after his death from an AIDS-related illness, and her discovery that she too was HIV-positive, she was filled with resentment.
Fewer staff for more patients
More people need health services because of HIV/AIDS yet there are fewer and fewer health workers to help them.
The impact is particularly bad at primary healthcare facilities, the first stop for sick people without medical aid.
Scoring against AIDS Living with AIDS # 374
'Show me your number,' a new campaign using football players to boost awareness around HIV and AIDS on and off the soccer pitch was launched recently.
Rath aftermath
Two families are broken after losing their loved ones who were on Rath's medication. Health-e visits them three years later.
Rath may be in contempt of court
Dr Matthias Rath is probably in contempt of court by continuing to sell his vitamins, including VitaCell as a medicine, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has said in a letter to Health Minister Barbara Hogan.
Quacks do good business in SA
'Bring me people sick with AIDS who can't walk', urges the poster stuck onto Durban bus shelters, with a cellphone number attached.
The number leads to a man who called himself 'Dr Mama Grace' who operates from a small building on Grey Street in downtown Durban.
Massage bed touted as AIDS cure
Ceragem is a Korean massage bed registered by the American Food and Drug Administration in the US for the treatment of minor aches and pains in arthritis ' but in South Africa it is being touted as an AIDS cure.
Cameroonian official claims AIDS vaccine
The former minister of health in Cameroon claims he has developed an AIDS 'vaccine' that has 'cured' 23 people of the disease, but when asked to produce those he had cured he could not.
Minister’s to do list, in six months
With just a few months to do the job before the next general election, the new Minister of Health, Barbara Hogan, has her job cut out for her ' and she is quick to admit that it's a tough job ahead ' one fraught with problems.
Fertility treatment for HIV positive couples now possible
A Cape Town fertility clinic has opened one of the only dedicated laboratories for HIV positive patients in the world where couples can safely conceive and give birth to an HIV-negative baby.
DEBATE: Male circumcision as an intervention against HIV
A recent debate in the journal Future HIV Therapy argues for and against male circumcision as an intervention against HIV.