Life of challenges for HIV-positive children
Thousands of children born HIV positive before effective treatment for their pregnant moms are now teenagers and young adults, struggling to negotiate life’s challenges.
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ARVs for HIV negative sex workers
AIDS 2016
It might sound strange, but ARVs can prevent HIV as well as treat it. A new programme using ARVs as pre-exposure prophylaxis was launched recently. Lindiwe Msibi reports...
All eyes are on the World AIDS Conference 2016
As the countdown to the 21st International AIDS Conference to be held in Durban enters the last few days, the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality responded to SANAC Chairperson and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal for coordinated activities to mark the event.
Losing a child to HIV
After her first child died of AIDS and she miscarried her second, Melita enrolled in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme and saved her third.
Raising an HIV Positive child is not child’s play
Malebo* was sick when she gave birth to her daughter 12 years ago, and soon realised her newborn was too. Medical tests done at the time confirmed that both mother and child were HIV positive. She tells Mpho Lekgetho her story.
Finding out about my HIV status at 13
AIDS2016: Being a teen is hard enough, but for Bongani Radebe, it also meant discovering that he had been born with HIV
AIDS2016: Coming out – twice
It's hard enough having to tell your parents that you are gay - but a young Free State man also had to tell his loved ones he was HIV positive.
Fighting illegal abortion clinics
The Limpopo Department of Health is fighting to shut down a growing number of illegal abortion clinics in the Vhembe area – some targeting students specifically with 50 percent discount offers.
Limpopo gets first breast milk bank
Limpopo mothers have welcomed the opening of the first breast milk bank in the province, believing it will help to save babies.
Platinum status for new clinic
Two new clinics are transforming the lives of rural communities in Mpumalanga, where people no longer have had to travel long distances to get medical attention
‘My street is a dump site’
Residents are tired of people dumping their rubbish wherever they feel like it in Pestana
Limpopo reassures patients on ARVs
The Limpopo health department says the shortage of antiretroviral medicine in Vuwani clinics is related to a national supply problem rather than violence in the area.
Rural grannies walk for health
In a remote rural village, community leaders are educating the elderly about how to stay healthy
Gogo’s deathbed wish fails
For over a year a social worker has worked tirelessly to try and reunite a sick 86-year-old Limpopo woman with her long lost family, but to no avail.
Gay-friendly clinic launched in Ermelo
A gay-friendly clinic was launched this week in Ermelo in Mpumalanga amid a warning from the provincial health MEC that homophobic staff needed to improve their attitude.