Provinces struggle with drug-resistant TB
Health officials countrywide are battling to cope with the growing numbers of patients with drug-resistant TB, and provinces are divided about whether to hospitalise all patients or not.
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AIDS tops Minister’s agenda
Improving our track record in dealing with HIV and AIDS is one of two key priority areas that the new Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, says she will focus on in the next six months.
Findings favourable for multi-therapy mother to child prevention
On 29 of August, doctors, scientists, researchers, politicians and administrators gathered for a morning celebration at Coronation Mother and Child Hospital. The role-players gathered to announce the highly successful initial findings of the multi-therapy prevention of mother-to-child-transmission programme that was introduced some seven months earlier.
New minister promises health turnaround
There is no reason why our dysfunctional health system cannot be turned around within five years, according to new Health Minister Barbara Hogan.
IFP blames ‘callous, incompetent and criminally negligent’ health system for baby deaths
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has called on the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and Nursing Council to investigate those hospitals responsible for the seemingly negligent deaths of the 140 children in the Ukhahlamba district of the Eastern Cape.
140 baby deaths due to poor health services
Poor health care at several Eastern Cape hospitals left more than 140 underprivileged children dead in one of South Africa's poorest districts within the first three months of this year.
Barbara Hogan faces the media
Barbara Hogan faced the media for the first time this week following her whirlwind promotion to one of the country's toughest portfolios.
New health minister means end of govt AIDS ‘denialism’
New Health Minister Barbara Hogan and deputy Dr Molefi Sefularo are renowned for hard work and integrity
Measuring Hospitals
Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has declared herself generally 'quite happy' with the performance of the 31 health facilities assessed in a rapid appraisal exercise to measure the 'Core Standards for Health Facilities in South Africa'.
HIV/AIDS and lesbian women
The sexual rights and health needs of lesbian women have been largely overlooked both in public and scholarly discourses as well as at the level of health care service delivery. Opinion piece by Melanie Judge and Delene van Dyk
Desperate Doctors
Doctors in KZN healthcare facilities battle against the Department of Health.
Breathing in Captivity
As more and more South Africans get infected with tuberculosis, government programmes that once could be counted on to bring TB under control are no longer adequate.
A window into Pholo’s life
Ten years of living with HIV! Is it possible to tell a decade of my life without writing a book? It is probably not possible, but since I have a couple more decades to live, I will use the time to tell the rest of my story.
Palliative care in action
The launch of the Centre of Excellence in Palliative Care in Johannesburg last week brings hope and courage to people with incurable illnesses, who often suffer enormous physical pain and emotional pain.
Committee rejects controversial medicine registration system
Parliament's health committee has rejected a move by the health department to introduce a two-tier system for medicines approval whereby the health minister would have had the final say over whether a medicine could be registered.