A commonly-used heart medication in South Africa has been recalled due to a recently-revealed potential link to cancer.
Read More » Popular heart medication recalled in SA due to cancer fears
Big pharmaceutical companies Roche, Pfizer and Aspen are under investigation by the Competition Commission for “excessive pricing” of cancer medicines.
Read More » Big Pharma in trouble for high prices
There has been remarkable progress in the AIDS response. We have come a long way since the 13th International AIDS Conference was hosted in Durban in 2000. Professor Chris Beyrer, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker and Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discuss...
Read More » Too soon to speak of the end of AIDS
For the last decade, everyone living and working with AIDS has been preoccupied with securing access to life-saving drugs. Now that just under a million South Africans are on ARVs, there's a new frontier in the fight against the virus: Safeguarding the human rights of people living with HIV.
Read More » Baby Blues
In June 1999 Thabo Mbeki became president. And so began one of the most destructive episodes in our recent history ' AIDS denialism. Mbeki questioned the very existence of a sexually-transmitted virus that caused AIDS.
Read More » The price of denial
Port Elizabeth's beleaguered Dora Nginza hospital is again facing lawsuits and recently settled out of court after a baby was brain damaged-after alleged negligent treatment in the Eastern Cape hospital's maternity section.
Read More » Cockroach hospital exposed
Teen-retrovirale middels is wondermedisyne. Dis ses jaar terug by staatshospitale landswyd ingebruik geneem. Dit red lewens en verhoog lewenskwaliteit. Danksy die middels, is MIV en VIGS nie meer 'n doodsvonnis nie.
Read More » Lewens Opgeskort
Today in our series on EVERYDAY HEROES, we have a story of immense sadness and courage. The story of a father who was determined to keep his family together despite enormous odds. Without food, safe sanitation or the means to keep warm this part winter, staying healthy was almost impossible for him.
Read More » Disability Grants Put Food on the TableA five part series that was aired on Morning Live in the run up to World AIDS Day explores the lives of ordinary people who deal with a life that seems to get more complicated every day. EVERYDAY HEROES. How do they make ends meet and make healthy choices? How have they managed to keep their families together and healthy? What lessons have they learned in the process? What can we learn from them?
Read More » Prioritising on a Fixed BudgetToday in our series on EVERYDAY HEROES we meet a woman who represents the silent army of heroes countrywide who are in frontline of the fights against HIV and AIDS. Home-based caregivers. Although it's a hard job where patients don't always get better and there's no personal reward, caregivers form the backbone of patient care in a health system that is overburdened and under-resourced.
Read More » Comfort Of StrangersWelcome to CAPETOWN ' the seat of a government that for many years confused it's people about the best ways for treating HIV. Vitamins, olive oil, lemon and beetroot, and a number of traditional therapies were promoted over scientifically proven life-prolonging anti-retroviral treatment.
Read More » Taking on the Quacks
Friday, 5pm, Standerton Hospital, Mpumalanga province - say you're driving on the nearby N3 to Durban. Say there's an accident. You'd better pray the ambulance doesn't bring you here.
Read More » Mpumalanga healthcare critical
On 29 of August, doctors, scientists, researchers, politicians and administrators gathered for a morning celebration at Coronation Mother and Child Hospital. The role-players gathered to announce the highly successful initial findings of the multi-therapy prevention of mother-to-child-transmission programme that was introduced some seven months earlier.
Read More » Findings favourable for multi-therapy mother to child preventionDoctors in KZN healthcare facilities battle against the Department of Health.
Read More » Desperate Doctors
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.
Read More » Breathing in Captivity
