Aids is not over, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, but donors are pulling out of South Africa because it is a middle-income country.
Civil society is important to the functioning of our democracy: sometimes the state has to be pushed hard to do its constitutional duty.
The Free State government had them arrested during a protest against their dismissal, now the workers say they will fight the charges in court.
In this 2014 interview, former Free State health MEC Benny Malakoane says that detractors are still alive is proof of the good work under his watch.
The pressure group has accused the Free State’s health MEC of being behind the intimidation.
Ill residents may suffer most after the axing of Free State community health workers.
The Free State health department has come under fire for a number of reasons. Bhekisisa visited the province ahead of elections to find out more.
Rent arrears have shut a clinic’s doors – just 500m from the Free State health MEC’s office.
The Treatment Action Campaign has criticised the ANC for what it says is the party’s non-commitment to making condoms available at schools.
The intellectual property policy, which will allow access to cheaper drugs, has yet to be finalised while patients are dying, say health activists.
Activist Zackie Achmat says a public pledge by the police would go a long way to mending their relationship with the Khayelitsha community.
The government must stop paying mere lip service to rooting out gender-based violence.
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/ 27 November 2013
At least in one in every five public health facilities in the country has run out of HIV and/or TB drugs in the last two months, says a report.
Hospitals and clinics are to be demolished and rebuilt to reboot the Eastern Cape’s "broken" health system.
A new combination treatment has been tested in Southern Africa, but it is not available locally.
A report released by health activists details mismanagement and shortages in Mthatha.
Patients go without key drugs as the province and suppliers trade blame for antiretroviral shortages.
Equal Education and the Treatment Action Campaign say giving condoms to schools won’t increase sexual activity but rather confront the gravity of sex.
The KwaZulu-Natal health department has rejected the Treatment Action Campaign’s concerns over a device used to perform male circumcisions.
The TAC and Section 27 have joined the fray in a face-off between Aventis Pharma and Cipla Life Sciences in a patent war over cancer drug Docetaxel.
This week, <b>Niren Tolsi<b>, looks at the transformative impact of Constitutional Court judgments in the communities which need it most.
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane has confirmed the province’s beleaguered health and social development department will be split in April.
Universal access to antiretroviral therapy could have saved more than 4,37-million children in Africa from becoming orphans.
Legal action may be taken against the civil society leaders who questioned the moral integrity of ANC leaders and named them, the party says.
The conference held by a coalition of civil society groups in October have triggered fears in the ANC that a "workerist" party would be established.
Thousands marched to the US consulate in Johannesburg on Thursday to deliver a memorandum demanding that HIV/Aids funding not be cut.
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/ 18 December 2009
Researchers and advocates have singled out South Africa’s under-staffed and overcrowded prisons as hotbeds for the transmission of HIV and TB.
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Malaria and TB, the largest funder of Aids programmes worldwide, has an estimated shortfall of $3-billion to $5-billion
The HIV-positive mother takes a deep breath as her name is called, scurrying behind the doctor who will tell her whether she has infected her baby.
The Treatment Action Campaign has slammed ”government inaction” on deteriorating living conditions in camps for displaced foreign nationals.
KwaZulu-Natal’s health minister Peggy Nkonyeni has been accused by the Treatment Action Campaign of orchestrating a ”witch-hunt” against two doctors.
The Cape High Court ruling that vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath was acting illegally was a victory for the rule of law, the TAC said on Friday.