HIV is the main driving force behind South Africa's high child death rates and unless there is a concerted effort to put child survival strategies in place the country faces an 'unstoppable wave of child mortality',' paediatricians have warned.
The French humanitarian group, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders is calling upon the South African government to remove restrictions which prohibit nurses from prescribing antiretroviral treatment from the scope of nursing practice.
World-first trial for KwaZulu-Natal of vaginal gel that may protect women against HIV.
Rural doctors are bracing themselves for a crisis in hospitals next year as the number of community service doctors is set to drop dramatically to around one-fifth of the usual intake.
Workplace HIV/AIDS peer educators can have an impact far beyond their place of work into their communities, according to a report released recently.
Government's long-awaited multi-million rand HIV/AIDS communication tender has finally been awarded to a single consortium headed by Hunt Lascaris.
Many HIV positive residents in the Eastern Cape town of Graaff-Reinet are dying as the province's HIV clinic continues to delay dispensing antiretrovirals (ARVs).
Late last November, the first subsidised, low-cost HIV and AIDS care clinic, opened in Johannesburg. Five months later, clinic management is concerned that demand for the service hasn't quite reached expectations.
Dr. Hugo Templeman, a Dutch physician who runs one of the best clinics in the impoverished rural village of Elandsdoorn in Limpopo province says that his is a model rural clinic.
The senior regional HIV/AIDS coordinator for the United Nations' High Commission for Refugees, says the inclusion of refugees in South Africa's antiretroviral therapy programme will not result in the influx of refugees into the country.
For years, there has been a battle over the best way to protect babies born to HIV positive mothers living in poor areas from getting the virus ' which has essentially boiled down to a battle between those who advocate breast feeding and those who advocate bottle-feeding with milk formula.
Powerful research on the benefits of breastfeeding changes government policy.
Male circumcision became officially endorsed as an HIV preventive measure today (wed 28th march) by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS.
South Africa is one of the top 10 countries in terms of its TB burden, according to the World Health Organisation. The country also fares poorly when considering its cure rate.
Only 32 of the 200 patients diagnosed with extremely drug resistant (XDR) TB at the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry are still alive.
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