- 30 Nov 2011 14:54 - Kate Kelland
- UN health agencies say extraordinary progress has been made in the fight against Aids but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk.
- 29 Nov 2011 13:04 - Sponsored Feature
- South Africa has an estimated 5.7-million people living with HIV and Aids, more than any other country on Earth.
- 09 Nov 2011 15:11 - Staff Reporter
- Global warming has spread the tsetse fly, which carries sleeping sickness, down to Southern Africa, threatening tens of millions more people.
- 07 Oct 2011 00:00 - Lesley Odendal
- New reports have revealed the cost of non-communicable diseases in Africa, estimating that they cause economic losses of nearly $500-billion a year.
- 22 Jul 2011 00:00 - Louise Redvers
- Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror -- including sexual abuse -- on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally.
- 15 Jul 2011 14:54 - Lesley Odendaal
- Efforts to revamp the international response to the treatment of drug-resistant TB are not proving sufficient.
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- 11 Jul 2011 15:01 - Staff Reporter
- SA has joined other Brics nations in a pledge to bring down the cost of high-quality medicine -- and make it more accessible to the poor.
- 01 Jul 2011 22:33 - Mia Malan
- China's success in becoming an accredited vaccine-maker will benefit the developing world.
- 17 Jun 2011 09:20 - Adele Baleta
- Kenyans are benefiting from a programme aimed at reducing diarrhoeal disease.
- 10 Jun 2011 00:00 - Anso Thom
- About 1.4-million South Africans with HIV/Aids are receiving ARVs -- a figure closer to the target set by the present national strategic plan.
- 03 Jun 2011 10:14 - Ngoako Matsha
- Tobacco is the only legally available product that kills people when it is used entirely as intended.
- 20 May 2011 00:00 - Lesley Odendal
- If people knew their status, new infections would decrease. The question is how to achieve this.
- 17 May 2011 06:43 - Fran Blandy
- Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on African countries to work harder to get life-saving vaccines to children.
- 14 May 2011 19:45 - Staff Reporter
- Initial test results indicate that a 12-year-old girl died of the deadly Ebola virus in a town about 35km north of Kampala.
- 13 May 2011 18:29 - Frank Jordans
- Average life expectancies are increasing steadily in most of the world, but men in Iraq and women in South Africa are bucking that trend.
- 12 May 2011 19:11 - Maryke Vermaak
- Early antiretroviral therapy reduces HIV transmission by 96%, Wits University announced on Thursday, following a multi-centre study.
- 21 Apr 2011 00:00 - Lesley Odendal
- Malaria drug breakthrough MSF calls for drug that could save 200 000 lives a year to be rolled out immediately
- 18 Apr 2011 14:30 - Stephanie Nebehay
- Virus samples will be shared globally in exchange for vaccines produced from them under a landmark deal to improve preparedness for a flu pandemic.
- 13 Apr 2011 14:09 - Neil Sands
- Huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts in Tonga, contributing to its obesity epidemic.
- 08 Apr 2011 16:46 - Staff Reporter
- Laurent Gbagbo will not step down despite being besieged and trapped in a bunker under his Abidjan residence, one of his advisors said on Friday.
