About 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, myths around HIV/AIDS and its transmission still abound. A study by a Wits University sociologist in several townships of Mpumalanga shows that AIDS is still misunderstood.
Read More » Myths around AIDS still abound Living with AIDS # 513
The South African Medical Devices Industry (SAMED) says it is disappointed that the Gauteng Department of Health has failed to live up to its commitment to pay outstanding debt owed to its members by the end of last month.
Read More » Medical Devices Industry still unhappy with Gauteng
Two years after her diagnosis with HIV, Phindile Sithole-Spong saw no point in hiding her status anymore. Since she came out about her HIV status at the age of 19, the University of Cape Town graduate finds herself doing it over and over again to different audiences, so as to help others.
Read More » Coming out to help others Living with AIDS # 512
Healthy eating coupled with regular physical exercise can go a long way in prolonging your life. The World Health Organisation's (WHO's) recent recommendation is for people to take, at least, 30 minutes exercising five days a week.
Read More » Exercise is good for the bodyPreventing new AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections is at the heart of the new National Strategic Plan (NSP) on HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs, which came into effect at the beginning of April.
Read More » NSP 2012 ‘ 2016 Living with AIDS # 511
The most frequently cited study of HIV in the Muslim community found that more than two and a half percent of Muslim men were HIV-positive. That is significantly lower than South Africa's general population, but, enough to worry leaders in the community. Health-e News Service visited a centre that's reaching out to support women and children affected by HIV.
Read More » Giving love
The Gauteng Health Department aims to test 3 million people for HIV and to put almost one million people onto treatment in the new financial year.
Read More » Gauteng aims big Living with AIDS 510
There is only one way to get well after being diagnosed with Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB. It is to stay positive and to adhere to taking the prescribed treatment, says Siphamandla Nkukayi, an in-patient at Sizwe Hospital. Ayanda Mkhwanazi of Health-e News Service paid him a visit.
Read More » Coping with MDR TB
Just days before the new National Strategic Plan (NSP) on HIV and AIDS, TB and STIs is due to be implemented on the 1st of April, the entire staff of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) has been fired, leaving no one in the SANAC Secretariat to deliver on the plan.
Read More » SANAC fires staffHIV is mostly a sexually transmitted infection, yet many people shy away from expressing sexuality or speaking openly about the very fact and act that may result in HIV infection. But that could change if Phindile Sithole-Spong, a young Johannesburg-based woman has her way.
Read More » Bringing sexy into HIV Living with AIDS 509
The Gauteng Health Department says decentralising TB treatment will help address the number of treatment defaulters the province currently has.
Read More » Gauteng employs new measures to fight TB
Eleven districts across the country have been chosen as launch pads for a future National Health Insurance (NHI) system. One district per province, with the exception of KwaZulu-Natal, from where three districts have been selected, will pilot the NHI system.
Read More » NHI pilot districts announced
With only one lung as a result of tuberculosis, Thabo Mwale is a man on a mission. He wants to protect others from going through the same experience he did.
Read More » Trying to prevent more Thabo Mwales
The new National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS, which comes into effect on April 1st, will prioritise young girls and women in its HIV prevention efforts. The Plan will also resuscitate the school-based HIV testing campaign, whose introduction fell flat on its face last year.
Read More » NSP to strengthen prevention among youth Living with AIDS # 508
Eighteen years after contracting tuberculosis, Thabo Mwale still suffers from the damage caused by the infection as he now has only one functional lung.
Read More » ‘This TB has changed my life’
