Lifelong ARVs for pregnant women, says Health Minister
All pregnant, HIV positive women will go onto lifelong antiretroviral treatment from January, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced in his health budget vote yesterday.
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A family’s cycle of sex work
Sex work helped Zanele Ndlovu* to buy a house – and put herself and her daughter through school but the daughter of a sex worker herself, Ndlovu says she hopes her daughter breaks the family's cycle of sex work.
Motherhood myths
Our rural doctor reflects on the traditions of motherhood and a colleague confirms her worst fears about one young patient.
First lady puts women’s cancer on Zuma’s agenda
South African first lady, Thobeka Madiba-Zuma, admitted to even using “pillow talk” with her influential husband to help women's cancers on national and international agendas.
HIV diagnosis unites young family
For some women, an HIV-positive diagnosis during pregnancy can spark domestic violence and abandonment. For Nokuzola Tholeduna, her diagnosis brought her young family together.
A man who eats his own eggs
Our rural doctor keeps watch over a critically ill patient and gets some words of wisdom from a night shift nurse.
Drug abuse fuelling gender-based violence in Soweto
Dobsonville youth recently marched against the drug abuse that social workers say is fuelling gender-based violence (GBV) in the Soweto neighbourhood.
Inheriting HIV: A bitter pill to swallow
Ten years after South Africa began providing free HIV treatment, a generation of children born with HIV continues to come of age with the virus. One young Mpumalanga man shares his story.
Family suffers double blow of cervical cancer
Months after OurHealth profiled 4-year-old Masego Seemise’s battle with eczema, the Seemise family of Hammanskraal has been dealt another blow after grandmother Decia’s diagnosis of cervical cancer.
Motsoaledi: Maternal, child focus remains post-MDGs
South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says three issues should top the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda.
Women are ‘collateral damage’ in South Sudan war
Health-e News Managing Editor Kerry Cullinan writes on HIV, women and media in war-torn South Sudan.
Gogo takes to the pitch to beat high blood pressure
As the globe’s best footballers take to the pitch for the World Cup, 60-year-old grandmother of ten Lizzy Jockia has taken to the field to save her life.
The fat life, island style
Pacific islands famous for white sands and turquoise seas are also home to some of the fattest people in the world, according to global research released today by The Lancet medical journal.
Huge herpes infections in women with HIV
Almost 90 percent of HIV-positive pregnant women are also infected with herpes, according to the recently released shock results of a government survey.
Report: South Africa’s 2012 national antenatal HIV survey
Recently released by the National Department of Health, the survey shows that about a third of pregnant women in the country are living with HIV.