With a surface area covering one third of South Africa and yet only one million residents (2% of the country's population), the Northern Cape should rank high in the healthcare stakes considering the small number of inhabitants it serves.
Revamped as part of the health department's revitalization programme, a spick and span George Hospital was presented to the national health minister in June this year.
The tobacco industry is trying to convince Parliament not to adopt more smoking controls at hearings on the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Bill of 2006.
Last year closed with renewed hope about South Africa's direction on AIDS policy. The National AIDS Council was reconstituted and it is in the process of drawing up a new plan to tackle AIDS over the next five years. We speak to Dr Nomonde Xundu, Cluster Manager of the HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs unit in the national Department of Health about this development.
Health MEC decides to 'lead by example' at launch of provincial HIV testing campaign.
Government research has poured cold water on claims that people are reluctant to take medicine in case they lose their disability grants and that child support grants encourage teenage girls to fall pregnant.
As the year draws to a close, there is still uncertainty over HIV and AIDS in government circles. In a move that could put her on the firing line, the Deputy Health Minister has dared to criticise both Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and President Thabo Mbeki.
Professor Di McIntyre, chair of government's Pricing Committee, tasked with determining a viable dispensing fee for pharmacists, spoke exclusively to Health-e.
Linda Hlahatsi is a prime example of the kind of health workers this country needs to train and retain.
The elderly woman, her thinning grey hair swept into a tiny ponytail, kicks her feet under the blue hospital blanket and lets out a long moan. She rocks her head from side to side and wails quietly, before turning onto her side.
Forty-nine frozen bodies, some as tiny as chickens, are trussed up in white plastic in cold storage in Stanger Hospital's morgue.
Gauteng has the most extensive provincial HIV/AIDS programme in the country, and has more than tripled the number of people on antiretroviral drugs in the past year alone.
Tambo Memorial Hospital on Gauteng's East Rand used to be over-burdened by alcohol related trauma cases. Today the pressure is primarily related to HIV and AIDS.
Nurses are at the forefront of providing care for HIV-infected patients. A new book, 'The Pocket Guide for HIV and AIDS Nursing Care', aims to sharpen their knowledge and skills as well as address nurses' own struggles with AIDS.
Kerry Cullinan speaks to the Deputy Health Minister, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
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