Finalist: Drivers of Change Individual Award — Shona McDonald
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/ 29 October 2013
The World Health Organisation has confirmed a polio outbreak among young children in north-east Syria, adding that the risk is high for it to spread.
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/ 17 October 2013
The World Health Organisation has classified air pollution as carcinogenic to humans.
Patients in the world’s poorest countries will continue to receive access to drugs cheaply for at least another decade.
Hopes are high that the new partnership will ensure easy, cheaper access to vaccines and medicine.
The establishment of a health promotion body in SA would save lives – and billions of rands.
As health officials insist on reaching a ‘near-zero’ malaria deaths target by 2015, attempts to fight the illness have drastically slowed down.
Scores of Ugandans have been isolated to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola, which has already killed three people.
New tobacco regulations for farmers could cost millions of jobs and revenue in a bid to save on health costs, writes Lloyd Gedye,
The World Health Organisation has released its annual update on the state of TB around the globe – revealing SA has the highest burden of the disease.
The drug is effective against resistant parasites and shows no adverse side effects, researchers say.
Ebola has broken out in Uganda, killing at least 14 people as health officials battle to stem the spread of the deadly virus.
PrePex, with which nurses can perform bloodless circumcisions without the supervision of a doctor, should be vetted by the WHO early next year.
Partial foreskin removal in some traditional practice may not protect as well against HIV, writes Mia Malan.
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.