Scientists’ and Researchers’ Appeal to Global Donors
10 years of ARVs. 33 years since first unexplained cases of AIDS. 31 years since HIV was first isolated. 1 000 000s of deaths. 16 years of the Treatment Action…
The national provincial interplay in SA health
Over the past few years and on varied scales, we have seen provincial health systems in a state of collapse. We have seen challenges with infrastructure, staffing, drug stock outs,…
Targets miss younger men
[caption id="attachment_2997" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Image: Oupa Nkosi[/caption] The 2012 National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs, and TB laid an important foundation for improving HIV prevention and treatment for Men who…
Overcoming barriers to health care
Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) are at high risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) but have historically been neglected in South Africa’s…
Time to connect the dots
In his Budget vote speech in July, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that only 50 percent of people in the public sector antiretroviral programme had received a viral load test…
Has Motsoaledi stopped consulting civil society?
[caption id="attachment_2984" align="aligncenter" width="400"] ‘Our next step is to increase coverage in the manner proposed by the 90 percent approach. This means testing most, if not all, of the population…
SANAC releases first NSP report
[caption id="attachment_2979" align="alignleft" width="570"] ‘...although the THEMBISA model indicates declines for all age groups and both sexes, the HSRC estimates that incidence has increased among females aged 15-49 and 15-24.”[/caption]…
Community health worker testimonials
Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a key role in making the health system work, yet they face poor working conditions, small stipends, and long periods of no-pay and irregular working…
Standing up for her rights
When 26-year-old student nurse Atalia Nkosi isn’t thinking about how fed up she is that nurses, and people in the Free State in general, have to put up with empty…
Broken promises
[caption id="attachment_2947" align="alignleft" width="570"] No one’s bothered to do repairs or maintenance at the nurses’ accommodation.[/caption] Dineo’s* fingers are stained red from the colourant-drenched corn chips she’s just finished eating.…
This sh*thole is our home
Bird poop and feathers make a mess on the floor of the community hall in Zone 2 in Thaba Nchu. No one bothers to clean it up because the pigeons…
Things fall apart
Poverty, lack of opportunity and a legacy of disempowerment and oppression make up the evil eye at the centre of a dangerous storm brewing over the most vulnerable people in…