Last week a new analysis of adult mortality rates in African countries was released. The study authors found that between 2004 and 2008, in those nations where the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was most active, the odds of death were about 20 percent lower than in other countries in the region. By Chris Collins.
The World Health Organisation warns that cardiovascular disease, tobacco-related illness and road deaths are increasingly responsible for millions of deaths in the developing world.
Stunted kids grow into fat adults, indicative of a nutritional crisis government does not know how to address. Are there no champions for NCDs because they mostly affect women, the old and fat?
The World Health Organisation has deployed a team of experts to help the government stem the coronavirus infections in South Africa. The country is one of the five countries most affected by the pandemic.
The World Health Organisation and UN agency Unicef fear that the world could see resurgence of measles and polio if immunisation programmes are disrupted.
We’ve finally been given government’s blue-print for how it plans to marry the private and public health sectors – the NHI White Paper. But many areas are fuzzy, particularly how it will persuade private doctors to work in a system that is likely to mean more work and less pay.
An impoverished community and a determined Stellenbosch epidemiologist are on a collision course with local authorities about a river so polluted it's potentially life threatening. By Anso Thom.
Analysis of five years of antiretroviral treatment in the state sector has found that the number of South African patients who were lost to follow-up or could not be traced has rapidly increased from 1% in 2002 to 24% in 2007.
With two small children, Health-e News reporter Marcia Zali had a strict routine. Then came lockdown, and her work-life balance unravelled.
As South Africa celebrates Women’s Day on 9 August, transwomen remain excluded even as they face the same threats and oppressions as cishet women, writes trans activist Ruby Nkosi.
While science has doubled our life spans, for many elderly people, the last phase of their lives is often a painful series of medical interventions that delay death but do not add value to life. What should the role of medicine be at the end of a person’s life?
What motivates a five-year old to rape a two-year-old toddler? In Umtata and East London such incidents are becoming increasingly common. In the first six weeks of 2004, 40 cases of child rape by other children were reported at Umtata Sinawe Rape Crisis Centre. In the first of a two-part series, Health-e visits the rape crisis centres in Mdantsane and in Umtata.
OPINION: The response to the announced increase in spending on health (from R84bn to R102bn ' approximately a 25% increase) by Pravin Gordhan has received mixed responses, from praise to queries regarding whether the budget brings us closer to the proposed National Health Insurance. By Bernhard Gaede
Beds are running out fast in Cape Metro hospitals with ICUs in particular overflowing with Covid-19 and trauma patients.
The Cape High Court will today hear an urgent application by Marie Stopes clinics alleging that the actions of the Western Cape Provincial Department of Health have put women's right to access terminations of pregnancy under threat.
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