Patients with tuberculosis and HIV are twice as likely to survive if they are treated for both conditions at the same time, than those who are first treated for TB.
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The sexual rights and health needs of lesbian women have been largely overlooked both in public and scholarly discourses as well as at the level of health care service delivery. Opinion piece by Melanie Judge and Delene van Dyk
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For the first time ever, research is underway to determine the impact of HIV on South African university students and staff.
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“HIV has probably been one of the biggest gifts that have ever been given to me” writes Clive Harvey Fox, a 51 year old Capetonian in his book, “Finding my Gift.”
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While HIV and tuberculosis are hitting the headlines daily, thousands are quietly dying of lifestyle diseases, many which can be prevented if diagnosed and treated early.
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It all seems like old hat for Jennifer-Joyce Hendricks. She walks into the open ward, places her file on the shelf, greets the sister, slips her shoes off for the weigh-in and takes her seat in one of the black lazy-boy chairs.
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For Chesna Cupido, it’s been a long road to get to this point. Suffering her first bout of kidney disease 19 years ago, ill health, exhaustion and pain has become part of her daily reality, but she’s clear that it’s her children that motivate her to return to Groote Schuur time and time again.
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Whichever way you try to look at it - Lungi Hlakudi has one of the toughest jobs imaginable. As assistant social work manager at Groote Schuur Hospital, Hlakudi is a critical cog in deciding whether kidney patients are approved, or not, for lifesaving dialysis. And more often than not, he is the one who has to tell desperately ill patients when they have failed to make the cut.
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Ten years of living with HIV! Is it possible to tell a decade of my life without writing a book? It is probably not possible, but since I have a couple more decades to live, I will use the time to tell the rest of my story.
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Ten years after being diagnosed with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala has stopped waiting for his death. Instead, he says he is looking after his health, hopes to stop drinking alcohol and is working on creating financial security for his children.
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Nokwayiyo Racasa is a former teacher who lives in Gugulethu on the Cape Flats. If you’d seen her five years ago, you would not have recognized her. She was thin; she often got sick; she had no energy.
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Doctors in KZN healthcare facilities battle against the Department of Health.
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As more and more South Africans get infected with tuberculosis, government programmes that once could be counted on to bring TB under control are no longer adequate.
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The opposition has hit out against the about turn by the ANC members in the health committee who last week rejected the minister’s two-tier medicines registration system, but are now supporting it.
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The high mortality rate in children under the age of five years might soon be a thing of the past. This follows the announcement by the Department of Health that it will roll-out Prevenar, a vaccine that prevents pneumococcus pneumonia, one of the leading causes of child deaths.
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The launch of the Centre of Excellence in Palliative Care in Johannesburg last week brings hope and courage to people with incurable illnesses, who often suffer enormous physical pain and emotional pain.
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Films showing real-life experiences that put us at risk of HIV infection and how people are dealing with the epidemic have been produced for television. The nine short films were produced by film-makers from nine countries in southern Africa.
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Parliament’s health committee has rejected a move by the health department to introduce a two-tier system for medicines approval whereby the health minister would have had the final say over whether a medicine could be registered.
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OPINION PIECE:It is time government showed the same vigor in tackling the snake oil salesman as they have in tackling conventional medicine and science.
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OPINION PIECE:It is time government showed the same vigor in tackling the snake oil salesmen as they have in tackling conventional medicine and science.
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The high number of South African women who die of breast cancer every year has prompted 12 breast cancer survivors to ride motorcycles from Johannesburg to Cape Town to promote awareness about breast cancer
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Taking care of people who are very sick or dying has traditionally been left to hospices. But in a novel partnership, the Gauteng Health Department will launch the Centre for Excellent Palliative Care at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital tomorrow (Friday, 15/08/2008). This integrates this kind of care into the public health service.
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Diabetes is increasing rapidly worldwide, yet many people are unaware of its symptoms. So says renowned paediatric diabetes expert Professor Tadej Battelino, in South Africa to attend an international diabetes conference.
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The health department has withdrawn two widely-dispensed tuberculosis (TB) drug combination batches after preliminary investigations revealed the drugs became unstable under long-term storage, ultimately placing patients at risk of not receiving their optimal dosage.
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Being in prison can result in depression and other mental conditions. At Westville Prison in Durban, a support group of prisoners is using the art of drawing and painting to help them deal with their incarceration and to transform themselves. With the help of LifeLine Durban, the inmates now have their work showing at Constitution Hill, in Johannesburg.
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