The world’s biggest tobacco company have gone to court in order to prevent the Australian government from forcing them to sell in unbranded packets.
Citizens have no way of knowing whether they will get value for their tax money, especially when it comes to policing.
In a recent study at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre at the University of Stellenbosch, two out of every three pregnant women with TB also had HIV.
Exclusively breastfed babies are less likely to become obese adults, research has shown.
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/ 17 January 2012
The Indian government has dispatched a team of medical experts to Mumbai to assess reports of a handful of cases of "untreatable" tuberculosis.
Balancing your needs and available resources will help you to cope with life’s demands and stress.
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/ 12 January 2012
If no cases of polio are discovered, India will no longer be considered to be polio endemic as it celebrates a year since its last reported case.
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/ 30 November 2011
UN health agencies say extraordinary progress has been made in the fight against Aids but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk.
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/ 29 November 2011
South Africa has an estimated 5.7-million people living with HIV and Aids, more than any other country on Earth.
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/ 9 November 2011
Global warming has spread the tsetse fly, which carries sleeping sickness, down to Southern Africa, threatening tens of millions more people.
New reports have revealed the cost of non-communicable diseases in Africa, estimating that they cause economic losses of nearly $500-billion a year.
Angolan security forces are waging a campaign of terror — including sexual abuse — on Congolese migrants who cross the border illegally.
Efforts to revamp the international response to the treatment of drug-resistant TB are not proving sufficient.
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.
China’s success in becoming an accredited vaccine-maker will benefit the developing world.
Kenyans are benefiting from a programme aimed at reducing diarrhoeal disease.
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.
Tobacco is the only legally available product that kills people when it is used entirely as intended.
If people knew their status, new infections would decrease. The question is how to achieve this.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on African countries to work harder to get life-saving vaccines to children.
Initial test results indicate that a 12-year-old girl died of the deadly Ebola virus in a town about 35km north of Kampala.
Average life expectancies are increasing steadily in most of the world, but men in Iraq and women in South Africa are bucking that trend.
Early antiretroviral therapy reduces HIV transmission by 96%, Wits University announced on Thursday, following a multi-centre study.
Malaria drug breakthrough MSF calls for drug that could save 200 000 lives a year to be rolled out immediately
Virus samples will be shared globally in exchange for vaccines produced from them under a landmark deal to improve preparedness for a flu pandemic.
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.
Circumcision is a physical event that always has cultural significance, writes <b>Deborah Ewing</b> and <b>Pieter Fourie</b>.
A substance abuse summit has suggested tightening the
alcohol laws.
Spain leads the world in organ transplants, but its success in the operating theatre is matched by its holistic approach outside.
An active approach to identifying TB at the community level is needed in a country with one of the highest rates of the disease in the world.
You have a bit of a cough, night sweats and a searing headache every now and again. So, what’s the diagnosis?
Australia, Canada and Singapore joined a list of countries shunning Japanese food imports as radioactive steam wafted anew from a nuclear plant.