A recent study published in the South African Medical Journal suggests that the shortage of suitable emergency transport services for patients needing intensive care is putting patients'€™ lives at risk and results in an increase in medical costs.
Men as Partners - a project of Engender Health - a group working in gender and health issues, have launched a new DVD highlighting the role that men can play in reducing the spread of HIV.
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has come up with a new strategy to empower cancer patients and their families. It has introduced a CD with relevant helpful information about the disease.
The arrival of the first batch of ARVs in June, 2005, at Madwaleni Hospital, in the rural area of Mbashe outside Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape, changed how health-care workers and the community view AIDS.
An HIV vaccine is possible, but it will take some time before it'€™s discovered, says the head of the HIV/AIDS Research Unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Prof. Lynn Morris.
Results of the Carraguard clinical trial - the first microbicide candidate to complete a Phase 111 trial '€“ are expected to be released in a few weeks'€™ time.
Madwaleni Hospital, in rural Mbashe just outside Mtata, in the Eastern Cape has come up with a new strategy to get more people to come for HIV testing. It takes testing services to the people.
As the international community is focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis another rapidly growing epidemic, diabetes, is also demanding attention.
The French humanitarian agency, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has called for a new approach in dealing with patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.
Health experts say the high level of tobacco use among South African children of school going age is worrisome.
The spread of HIV/AIDS in rural areas has seen some people blaming migrant workers as being largely responsible for the spread of the pandemic.
The credibility of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital'€™s management is under scrutiny, following the recent media expose'€™ of poor conditions in the facility'€™s maternity ward.
The recent corruption scandal at the South African Bureau of Standards, which resulted in huge numbers of condoms reaching the public without undergoing the necessary testing procedures, has helped fuel the already existing negative perception about the reliability of government condoms.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says poor communities are hardest hit by poor infrastructure and the shortage of staff in the public health care system.
The halting of the HVTN 503 vaccine trial, dubbed '€˜Phambili'€™, has left some doubtful that an effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection will ever be found.
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