Professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of SA’s foremost HIV researchers, were recently the health department’s greatest enemies.
Nehawu: The South African Medical Association should get a better grip on OSD negotiations and keep its affiliate members.
The toyi-toyiing ”helps me to get rid of my frustrations at the hospital”, says one doctor.
”This year we’ve been running out of simple things, such as Panado,” says one doctor.
Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn children at greater risk than they think, writes Mia Malan.
Angry medical practitioners staged daily lunch-hour pickets outside hospitals across the country last week.
Medical practitioners warn that they could resume strike action if government does not respond to their demands.
As swine flu threatens South Africa, experts say the country does not have enough of the medicines necessary to contain an epidemic.
Aids activists have threatened mass action and a lawsuit against Kenya’s government for its apparent failure to protect HIV-positive people from violence and intolerance. This follows the brutal murder of Isaiah Gakuyo, a frail 15-year-old boy who had been living with Aids.
A historic lawsuit in the Nairobi High Court, the first time that a Kenyan court will have heard a case relating to alleged discrimination against someone living with Aids, recently galvanised East African Aids activists. Previously fractious organisations representing HIV-positive Kenyans, united to demonstrate in the streets and to declare a "new militancy".