South Africa and 38 other countries with high-burdens of tuberculosis (TB) will benefit from a pricing agreement that will see the introduction of a test that is set to initiate a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to test for TB and multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB.
Activist group opposes locking MDR and XDR patients in hospital wards as there are too many patients for health authorities to cope with.
TB stakeholders sets four key tasks to contain southern Africa's TB-HIV epidemic.
The Mpumalanga man who grew breasts as a side-effect of being on antiretroviral drugs was not properly monitored by healthworkers, according to HIV experts.
Differences between government and AIDS activists are slowing down efforts to reach agreement on a comprehensive plan for HIV and AIDS in prisons.
Overburdened home-based carers are being forced to step in as sick people are abandoned by their families
A new study looking at violence and sexual aggression in a Gauteng youth male correctional facility shows that many prison rapes go unreported. This makes HIV infection among rape survivors a real threat.
The Health Department has recalled millions of male condoms it supplies annually after further testing revealed even more of the barriers were of inferior quality.
After what he calls 'many years of government stalling', this week the Labour Court finally heard the case of a former Mpumalanga doctor. Dr Malcolm Naude is challenging the Mpumalanga Department of Health for dismissing him, he alleges, on the grounds that he provided antiretroviral treatment to rape survivors.
The recent corruption scandal at the South African Bureau of Standards, which resulted in huge numbers of condoms reaching the public without undergoing the necessary testing procedures, has helped fuel the already existing negative perception about the reliability of government condoms.
Contrary to popular belief, it is not entirely difficult to get men to test for HIV. This is according to New Start, a non-profit public health programme offering low-cost Voluntary Counselling and Testing services.
After seven years of 'down time' South Africa is back in the business of vaccine production with the formulating and filling of the hepatitis B vaccine at the Biovac Institute, a public-private partnership.
The Treatment Action Campaign has sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki formally requesting that he appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into the presidency and health ministry's involvement in the promotion and testing of Virodene. Read the full letter here as well as a synopsis of the Virodene affair.
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update focuses on the Caribbean's slow response to the AIDS epidemic, Australia's Hepatitis C epidemic which is fuelled by injecting drug use and London's efforts to get condoms to Olympic athletes come 2012.
Health-e will be posting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update every week. The Update focuses on news from around the world in the fields of among others HIV, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Tuberculosis.
Be in the know with our free weekly newsletter. We deliver a round-up of our top stories and insightful reads from across the web.