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.
'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.
Two families are broken after losing their loved ones who were on Rath's medication. Health-e visits them three years later.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A recent debate in the journal Future HIV Therapy argues for and against male circumcision as an intervention against HIV.
Writing in his diary about life with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala reveals his anxiety about going for his next big test ' checking the progression of the virus that lives in his body and the strength of his CD 4 cells.
A seven-year court battle against the Mpumalanga Health Department has finally ended in victory for Dr Malcolm Naude.
An ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan aimed at reducing the number of malaria deaths to near zero by 2015 was revealed in New York yesterday (Thursday) with world leaders committing nearly US$3-billion to ensure it succeeds.
The high mortality rate in children under the age of five years might soon be a thing of the past. This follows the announcement by the Department of Health that it will roll-out Prevenar, a vaccine that prevents pneumococcus pneumonia, one of the leading causes of child deaths.
The opposition has hit out against the about turn by the ANC members in the health committee who last week rejected the minister's two-tier medicines registration system, but are now supporting it.
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