Madwaleni Hospital, situated in one of South Africa's poorest districts, has overcome many hurdles to emerge as a shining light in the Eastern Cape, delivering lifesaving healthcare to the 120 000 strong rural community. Now, the hospital is trying to find replacements for their Managing Chief Medical Officer and HIV specialist.
It's that time of the year again when all of us indulge in all sorts of feasts, with little regard to what we eat. But, as you prepare your festive meals, be sure that what you eat is healthy for your dear heart.
The impact of HIV in children does not only manifest through poor physical health. Often, children living with HIV have difficulties with their cognitive development.
The face of HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal is a woman in her thirties living in eThekwini, according to a study released this week.
HIV-positive babies will have an improved chance of survival following the implementation of government's revised anti-retroviral (ARV) policy. All children living with HIV under one year of age will receive treatment as soon as they are diagnosed.
Activists are concerned that the limited access to female condoms as a means of HIV prevention compared to male condoms is a violation of human rights. Annually, the government distributes over 400 million condoms compared to three million female condoms.
President Zuma finally ended any ambiguity in the government's response to AIDS when he announced changes to improve AIDS treatment this week. But for these policy changes to be real, the new-found political commitment must be accompanied by the commitment of resources.
In June 1999 Thabo Mbeki became president. And so began one of the most destructive episodes in our recent history ' AIDS denialism. Mbeki questioned the very existence of a sexually-transmitted virus that caused AIDS.
Coronation Hospital took more than 24 hours to tell a couple their baby was born dead ' then made the father sort through 40 bodies to see his little son.
Western medicine and traditional healers have long been at odds with one another about how to treat HIV/AIDS. But in the Umgungundlovu district, which has the highest HIV prevalence in the country, integration of the two is starting to happen.
Preliminary results from a study conducted in Johannesburg show that women with HIV have a higher risk of developing cervical cancer than women who are HIV-negative.
Public-private partnerships are key to national health insurance, writes Mamphela Ramphele.
Universal access to antiretrovirals in poor countries is under threat as donors reduce funding for AIDS programmes, warns Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
OPINION:The ANC proposed national health insurance (NHI) as seen through the ideological lense by Jasson Urbach of the Free Market Foundation in the Sowetan of 21 October 2009, which he labels a 'threat to health,' is nothing but a scare tactic designed to persuade the public and policy makers to abandon the idea of implementing it. Once the government releases the policy proposal for public and stakeholder consultation, it will become clear that the arguments used in such negative campaigns are not well founded.
Anthony Mbewu, the current President of the Medical Research Council of South Africa (MRC), has been appointed the Executive Director of the Swiss-based Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR). Is this an appropriate appointment? By Nathan Geffen.
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