WASHINGTON ' Speaking at a satellite session today at the XIX International AIDS Conference, Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), commended countries and their international partners for recent progress in preventing new HIV infections among children and saving mothers' lives.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says it's time that the country focuses on family planning programmes to reduce the scourge of maternal and child mortality. The minister was speaking at the opening of a new health facility whose primary purpose is child and maternal health.
WASHINGTON DC, 23 July 2012 (PLUSNEWS) - Fewer babies are being born HIV-positive, but treatment for the more than three million children living with HIV remains under-researched and underfunded. As part of efforts to boost access to paediatric HIV treatment, researchers are getting creative, moving to better pills, kid-friendly treatment "sprinkles", micro-tabs and even medicine-dispensing pacifiers.
The People's Health Movement South Africa issued a statement and call to action at its first national health assembly (NHA) which preceded the Global People ¹s Health Assembly held in Cape Town earlier this month.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced new results today that show a significant increase in treatment of HIV and in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
A far-flung Northern Cape town has been making world headlines over the last few years. Unfortunately for the wrong reasons - a 2002-study revealed that more than one in 10 (12.2%) children in the De Aar community had foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), giving the town the highest reported rate in the world.
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) will be taking legal advice against the Consumer Commissioner for recent statements she made about medical schemes.
JOHANNESBURG, July, 17, 2012 ' The South African Nursing Council (SANC) and Africa Health Placements (AHP) recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to bring more nurses to South Africa.
Child mortality rates have slowly come down, although they are still significantly high. Health experts say this is attributed to huge inequalities that exist in accessing health care.
Private medical insurance is a luxury less than one in five (16%) South Africans can afford, and it is not getting any cheaper. Studies reveal that in 1981 a household with one working member paid about seven percent of its income to medical scheme contributions, by 1991 this portion had increased to 14 percent, rising further to 20 percent by 2001, and by 2007 stood at 30 percent.
The Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum has expressed concern over the deepening crisis in the Eastern Cape health system and has identified ways in which civil society could continue to apply pressure on the government to take decisive steps in preventing its collapse. Read the full statement here.
The strike by AIDS counsellors in Gauteng is continuing, despite the provincial heath department's promise to settle the pay dispute. The striking workers say they will return to work only when the Gauteng Health Department has deposited their money into their accounts.
Is it possible to control the epidemic of HIV by using antiretroviral therapy? This pressing question is addressed in a collection of new articles published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
CAPE TOWN - The time has come for social activists to campaign for a Global Constitution on the Right to Health ending the current status quo where 'our ill health is politically constructed by those above us', activist Mark Heywood told the 3rd People's Health Assembly (PHA).
In South Africa and across Africa, HIV continues to prey on women, sex workers and men who have sex with men. It is clear that to end the HIV epidemic, we must protect and support these groups.By Festus Mogae and Stephen Lewis
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