Retaining health workers in rural facilities remains a major challenge facing South Africa and other developing nations. But, some success stories have emerged from a few rural areas.
Read More » Staffing rural health facilities
People living with HIV and AIDS are at an increased risk of developing serious mental disorders, according to mental health professionals at a Johannesburg meeting this week.
Read More » The link between mental health & HIV Living with AIDS # 447
The current strike by government employees which has left some patients dead and others without access to medication could have been avoided had government had a Minimum Level Service Agreement with unions to ensure that health care services do not shut down.
Read More » Govt criticised for public sector strike
In a special partnership the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication and the Wits School of Public Health, have launched a post-graduate degree programme aimed at breeding professionals who will promote and implement social and behaviour change communication in health.
Read More » Teaching health communication Living with AIDS # 446
People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.
Read More » Strike threatens lives’ of AIDS patients
This week we continue our conversation with Helen Epstein, author of 'The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against Aids', which unravels how the practice of multiple and concurrent partnerships fuels the spread of AIDS on the African continent.
Read More » Partnering to spread AIDS ‘ Part 2 Living with AIDS # 445
The public servants' strike has left patients high and dry as services have shut down and patients are being turned away from hospitals. A visit to the Sebokeng Hospital in the Vaal proved just that.
Read More » Strike wreaks havoc on health services
Health-e News Service visited Middelburg, in the Eastern Cape, and saw how children suffer and are forced to fend for themselves as their parents live under the spell of alcohol abuse.
Read More » Substance abuse blamed for children’s woesGovernment got an interdict over the weekend ordering public service workers to return back to work. In the wake of the strike last week, public sector hospitals, which already operate with insufficient staffing levels, were abandoned and patients suffered the consequences.
Read More » Strike impactLucas Shimanga, a finance clerk at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, is one of hundreds of thousands of striking government employees who have abandoned their posts at various institutions, including hospitals and schools.
Read More » Striking ‘the only weapon we have’
Have you ever wondered why HIV spreads so fast in Africa? Have you ever thought that people considered high risk takers, like sex workers and truck drivers, are at more risk of HIV infection than yourself? Molecular biologist and author, Helen Epstein, turns conventional wisdom around in her renowned book, 'The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS'.
Read More » Partnering to spread AIDS Living with AIDS # 444
Women leaders in South Africa have hailed the outcome of a microbicide gel study, saying it will help protect women who can't negotiate safe sex with their partners against HIV infection.
Read More » Tenofovir gel hailed
This being National Immunisation Week, we focus on a vaccine for pneumonia, one of the illnesses that target children, and is responsible for the majority of infant morbidity and mortality rates.
Read More » The importance of a vaccine for childhood pneumonia
Research shows that men are the main drivers of the HIV epidemic. Men transmit HIV to women, who, in turn, can infect their babies if they fall pregnant. But this can be prevented if men become a part of the woman's pregnancy.
Read More » Moulding men you can count on Living with AIDS # 442
Every 17 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa. According to the South African Police Services' 2006 rape statistics, close to 55 000 women reported being raped that year. But how many more rapes go unreported, and why?
Read More » Rape survivors still feel marginalised
