HIV and AIDS

ARVs to be available through special ATMs

News, Our Health

Access to treatment will be now be made easier for people living with HIV/AIDS as they will now be able to collect their medicine at shopping malls thanks to the introduction of specials ATM machines.

Zizo Zikali
July 14, 2017

‘I am HIV positive not cursed’

News, Our Health

Mpumalanga – A young man, diagnosed with HIV and advised to start anti-retroviral treatment, chose instead to please his family and turn to the church for help.

cynthiamaseko
May 4, 2017

Norah takes sex education to schools

Health, Our Health

Diagnosed HIV positive at birth, pregnant at 16, raped at 19 – a young woman raised in Soweto is using her own life experiences to teach young people about HIV and unwanted pregnancy.

jamesthabo
April 5, 2017

“I am HIV+, but my partner is negative”

Health, Our Health

FREE STATE - Lerato Mofokeng, a 36-year-old mother of a four year old, was surprised when she and her child were diagnosed with HIV – yet her boyfriend of seven years tested negative for the virus.

Hands showing lab workers testing for HIV

“Suburban” residents bar access for HIV survey

News

Future health policies will be based on the results of this survey, yet some residents have refused to participate.

Amy Green
February 22, 2017

ADVANCE HIV study set to save SA billions

Health

A new HIV drug combination could save SA billions of rands – plus it would be easier and safer for patients to take.

Amy Green
January 17, 2017

DIY test for HIV comes to a pharmacy near you

Health, Health Systems, Men's Health, News

It’s as simple and easy as a home pregnancy test, and should be treated similarly, argues Health-e News writer Amy Green who went through the process of self-testing for HIV.

Amy Green
January 16, 2017

“Denial nearly killed me” says HIV+ woman

Health, News, Our Health

A young HIV positive woman who was prepared to do almost anything to hide her status has come to the realisation that living openly and honestly has freed her to realise her full potential.

Bontle Motsoeneng
December 29, 2016

Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention

Gender Based Violence, Health, Men's Health

Transgender people are one of the key populations identified as being at a higher risk of HIV - but they face stigma from society and healthcare workers. One transgender man explains why his community "needs attention now".

Amy Green
December 5, 2016

Female condoms: a complicated issue in need of attention

News

Some women in rural areas of the Northern Cape, where efforts are underway to promote increased usage of female condoms, have said they are against the device.

mpholekgetho
September 28, 2016

“Years of dental neglect have caused my teeth to fall out”

Health Systems, News, Our Health

While dental services at government health facilities are free, the fact that they are limited, many poor people in rural communities are unable to make use of them or are not aware of them. It’s an issue that is receiving some attention as September is oral hygiene month.

cynthiamaseko
September 27, 2016

AIDS-free baby girls face infection in their teens

Health

The odds are stacked against young women, making them continually at risk of HIV as long as society is dominated by men and relationships between young girls and older men are the norm.

sibongilenkosi
July 25, 2016

HIV in children halved – UNAIDS

Health, Health Systems

New HIV infections in children have halved since 2001 and been cut by one-third in adults.

kerrycullinan
September 23, 2013

Called to care. Living with AIDS

News

In the absence of easily available and affordable access to AIDS treatment, the burden of care for those who are sick falls on individual households, NGOs and faith-based organisations who respond to the needs they see around them. Health-e News meets care-giver, Caiphas Mohale of Bolobedu, in Tzaneen, Limpopo province.

healthe
March 17, 2004

Scare-tactics don’t work

Health

Rather than preach about the dangers of HIV, condom-promotion should show that when people are comfortable with, and in control of, their sexuality, condoms do not result in unsatisfactory sex.

healthe
November 5, 1999

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