DURBAN - Severe overcrowding in KwaZulu-Natal’s prisons is contributing to the spread of HIV and tuberculosis and driving the high death toll in prisons.
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Almost a million South Africans are already on lifelong antiretroviral treatment and this number is supposed to triple in the next decade if government keeps to its implementation plan.
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OPINION: Florence Nightingale, the woman widely credited with introducing professional nursing standards, died 100 years ago this month.
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People taking life-long antiretroviral therapy have been left stranded and are being forced to skip crucial treatment as the public sector strike continues.
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Services at Mowbray Maternity Hospital’s outpatients department were largely suspended and most patients were told to return at a later date after workers failed to pitch for work yesterday.
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This week we continue our conversation with Helen Epstein, author of “The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against Aids”, which unravels how the practice of multiple and concurrent partnerships fuels the spread of AIDS on the African continent.
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The public servants’ strike has left patients high and dry as services have shut down and patients are being turned away from hospitals. A visit to the Sebokeng Hospital in the Vaal proved just that.
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A row of tiny babies, many premature and weighing less than a kilogramme, lie under blue ultraviolet lights. Feeding tubes snake into their little noses while others are fed intravenously.
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