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Video: What happens to the blood you donate?

Health, Health Systems, Multimedia

As South Africa observes National Blood Donor month, we take you behind the scenes into the labs of the South African National Blood Service (SANBS).

kyla
June 8, 2016

Video: ‘Ok, I have HIV, I want to live a long life’

Health, Multimedia

To commemorate Youth Month in June, Health-e News is broadcasting a five-part adolescent health series on Morning Live (SABC 2). This insert – the third in the series – follows Aphiwe Thamela, an HIV-positive youth who is both raising a daughter and making a difference in her community.

kyla
June 19, 2015

Growing up HIV positive

Health

Living with the reality of being HIV positive may be daunting for adults but it can be even more terrifying for teenagers

ayandamkhwanazi
December 2, 2014

South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence & Behaviour Survey, 2012

Health

The latest national HIV survey in South Africa finds increases in HIV prevalence, decreases in condom use and earlier sexual debut for boys among other findings.

healthe
April 1, 2014
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Report: StatsSA Mortality, causes of death in South Africa 2011

Health

StatsSA's latest report on causes of death in South Africa shows slow continued declines in deaths due to communicable diseases like HIV but increases in deaths due to injuries and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

healthe
March 21, 2014

KwaZulu-Natal charts gains in HIV despite massive burden

Health

KwaZulu-Natal continues to battle high HIV rates but some districts are managing to keep up with high infection rates, according to the new District Health Barometer.

kerrycullinan
October 29, 2013

Community health workers strike for better working conditions

Health Systems, Our Health

Lack of payment recently prompted Gauteng community health workers to protest, marking at least the second such action in three years.

lungilethamela
October 23, 2013
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SA offers HIV vaccine research hope

Health

BARCELONA - South Africa is the only country in the world where a large AIDS vaccine trial is being planned, as the global scientific community struggles to find a way to eradicate HIV.

kerrycullinan
October 9, 2013
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Mpumalanga launches new Ward AIDS Councils

Health, Our Health

The province’s Msukaligwa Municipality introduces its first 19 Ward AIDS Councils.

senamilephungula
October 3, 2013

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

How South Africa’s fight against HIV stacks up

Health, Health Systems

About six million people in South Africa are living with HIV, according to UNAIDS new report. Here’s how South Africa’s HIV response stacks up against other countries.

lauralopez
September 23, 2013
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Palliative care for women living with HIV

Gender Based Violence, Health

This report by the African Palliative Care Association discusses the benefits of palliative care for women living with HIV and provides some case studies of real women who have had experience of palliative care.

healthe
September 19, 2013

Need to rethink palliative care in South Africa

Health, Health Systems

Hospice is still a place associated with HIV, cancer and death. But rising rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) may mean South Africa needs to rethink the meaning of hospice.

lauralopez
September 19, 2013
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Palliative care for women living with HIV and cervical cancer

Health, Women's Health

Published by the African Palliative Care Association, this booklet is intended to help women living with HIV as well as cancer of the cervix, their families and others in the community who support them.

healthe
September 19, 2013

HIV messages should include MSM

Health

A survey of 1 700 South African men from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal revealed that one in 10 men has been sexually assaulted by another man, while about one in 20 report having consensual sexual contact with other men – many who are at the same time in sexual relationships with women, according to research.

Health-e News
June 19, 2013

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