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.
Read More »WHO warns of lurking dangersWhile there are no formal surveys, guesstimates are that about 22 percent of South African university undergraduate students are HIV positive. In this special report we investigate how tertiary institutions are dealing with the epidemic.
Read More »High Risk
In 1990 the World Bank predicted that within ten years there would be 1,2 million HIV infections in Brazil. Thirteen years later, this scenario has yet to materialise. Health-e News Service looks at the Brazilian response to HIV/AIDS.
Read More »HIV/AIDS ‘€“ Lessons from BrazilPreparation for the roll-out of a state-funded antiretroviral treatment programme requires not only careful co-ordination, but a rigorous debate on how much money should be spent on the programme and where it will come from. by Dr. Nicoli Nattrass
Read More »Funding will determine scope of ARV roll outInstead of waiting for resources from national government on how to deal with HIV/AIDS, McCord Hospital in Durban has implemented its own fundraising plans driven by people living with the disease.
Read More »Flourishing on compassion
Follow proceedings at the 2nd International AIDS Society Conference in Paris from July 13 to 16 online courtesy of http://www.kaisernetwork.org - a free online health policy news and information service of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Scientific Programme of the 2nd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment is planned to provide new insights into HIV disease that can lead to new research directions, help speed translational research and move advances into clinical practice. Webcasts will be available of all conference plenaries as well as selected sessions.
Read More »Webcast of the International AIDS Society ConferenceRead the full text of the Minster of Health'€™s budget speech presented to parliament on May 13.
Read More »Full text of the Minister of Health’s Budget SpeechVarious legislative changes aimed at get the private sector to take on more public health patients have been undermined by high medical inflation
Read More »The high costs of private healthPreventable, treatable and curable diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia and thrush, for which there are often free or cheap drugs, are causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive people, the United States based Treatment Action Group (TAG) has revealed.Speaking at the Treatment Preparedness Summit recently held in Cape Town, TAG executive director Mark Harrington said that treatable and curable opportunistic infections were responsible for the deaths of most people infected with HIV/AIDS. Anso Thom reports.
Read More »Lack of access causes deathsThe world'€™s most powerful weapon against HIV/AIDS -- anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs '€“ dominated public debate about the disease in South Africa this year. By Kerry Cullinan.
Read More »AIDS the year in reviewGroaning under the weight of HIV/AIDS, KwaZulu-Natal's hospitals provide other provinces with a preview of what they can expect as their epidemics mature. Kerry Cullinan reports.
Read More »KZN hospitals under pressure
It'€™s been two decades since Dr Peter Piot, now head of UNAIDS, first saw patients from central Africa with a mysterious illness that we today know to be HIV/Aids. Since then he has made it his mission to keep the epidemic on the international political agenda. Kathryn Strachan spoke to Dr Piot during his recent visit to South Africa
Read More »Still fighting for HIV/AIDSThe Bareki Tribal Authority and the concerned residents of Heuningvlei in the North West province have demanded that Gencor and it'€™s subsidiary, Gefco, clean up  an old mine and mill sites that they believe pose a  serious health hazard. Kerry Cullinan reports.
Read More »Gencor ordered to clean up old asbestos mine
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.
Read More »Where the River FlowsAs government and the Treatment Action Campaign meet in the Constitutional Court, HIV positive mothers and AIDS experts celebrate the effect of Nevirapine in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission.
Read More »Nevirapine: It’€™s about saving babies’€™ lives