AIDS2016: The Durban I used to hate
Fifteen years ago, death was everywhere in Durban, the epicentre of AIDS in the world, and the state had been "captured" by AIDS denialists
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All eyes are on the World AIDS Conference 2016
As the countdown to the 21st International AIDS Conference to be held in Durban enters the last few days, the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality responded to SANAC Chairperson and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal for coordinated activities to mark the event.
Losing a child to HIV
After her first child died of AIDS and she miscarried her second, Melita enrolled in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme and saved her third.
Generic applications flood the MCC
The Medicine Control Council should limit generic applications to seven per innovator medicine to cut the backlog that is blocking cheaper, better drugs from entering the SA market. By Henry Leng
Raising an HIV Positive child is not child’s play
Malebo* was sick when she gave birth to her daughter 12 years ago, and soon realised her newborn was too. Medical tests done at the time confirmed that both mother and child were HIV positive. She tells Mpho Lekgetho her story.
Finding out about my HIV status at 13
AIDS2016: Being a teen is hard enough, but for Bongani Radebe, it also meant discovering that he had been born with HIV
Search for AIDS cure to be intensified
The search for an AIDS cure will be intensified, according to the International AIDS Society (IAS), which yesterday published its cure strategies and priorities.
If you are sane, you need to read this
I don’t trust my psychiatrist. She is a lovely woman, expedient and efficient at her job, and she is the only one of the many specialists that I have consulted who has successfully prescribed medication that does its job.
AIDS2016: Coming out – twice
It's hard enough having to tell your parents that you are gay - but a young Free State man also had to tell his loved ones he was HIV positive.
Fighting illegal abortion clinics
The Limpopo Department of Health is fighting to shut down a growing number of illegal abortion clinics in the Vhembe area – some targeting students specifically with 50 percent discount offers.
Limpopo gets first breast milk bank
Limpopo mothers have welcomed the opening of the first breast milk bank in the province, believing it will help to save babies.
Platinum status for new clinic
Two new clinics are transforming the lives of rural communities in Mpumalanga, where people no longer have had to travel long distances to get medical attention
Health-e News intern wins a study tour to US
Health-e News intern Thabo Molelekwa has been selected, along with three other journalists, to be part of a study tour to the United States later this year.
‘My street is a dump site’
Residents are tired of people dumping their rubbish wherever they feel like it in Pestana
Refinery’s ‘potent fog’ sparks health crisis
Nose bleeds and watery eyes are just some of the symptoms experienced by a small community next door to Lonmin’s platimum refinery, but Lonmin denies any responsibility