Interactive Data Dashboards
Live indicators, province breakdowns and downloadable data.
Transmission risk In March 2014, researchers reported at the 21st Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) that no HIV-positive study participants with undetectable viral load counts had transmitted HIV during the first two years of the Partner Study (a study of the HIV transmission rates in partners, one of whom is HIV positive and…
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In March members of the Stop Stockouts project and SECTION27 travelled to the Eastern Cape in order to conduct human rights awareness workshops focussed on the right to health. We conducted workshops in East London, Hamburg, Bulungula and Lusikisiki on healthcare rights and ways of realising these rights through complaints mechanisms, statement-taking and using stockouts…
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Life expectancy in South Africa is increasing rapidly. Deaths from HIV and TB are declining because of the antiretroviral treatment programme and improved TB treatment outcomes. This is the essence of what we learn from two recent reports and a National Department of Health (NDOH) slideshow. In March, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) released the…
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The National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB (NSP) sets a number of targets for South Africa to reach by 2016. In this table we track our collective progress against a number of key targets or indicators. The table reveals that in many areas we have outdated statistics, or no statistics at all. This…
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Every few months we are confronted with new AIDS statistics in newspaper headlines. Some of these tell an important story, others less so. Yet, there is one statistic that could easily be reported on, but that somehow never makes it onto the front pages. Our current measuring sticks The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in the…
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The National Strategic Plan (NSP) on HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and TB (2012-2016) addresses the drivers of HIV and TB epidemics, and builds on the achievements of the previous NSPs to achieve its goals. The plan has four strategic objectives: Addressing social and structural barriers to HIV, STI and TB prevention, care and impact.…
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The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition is a group of organisations and individuals working toward a common goal: The fulfillment of the right to health in a province in which that right has been effectively denied. In September 2013, the NSP Review published a special edition titled Death and Dying in the Eastern Cape.…
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The question of how the government intends to finance our National Health Insurance (NHI) is a critical piece of the health puzzle that remains unanswered. As the pilot projects have rolled out in different parts of the country, the national debate around the entire feasibility of NHI has heated up. Yet, while it remains unclear…
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A scale takes centre stage in a dusty courtyard-come-parking lot. It would look strange except that this space is also a makeshift waiting room at a clinic in the township of Embalenhle, outside Secunda. There are three rooms in the small clinic. One is for consultations; another is an office. The third is the foyer…
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She’s like the girlfriend who can answer all your crazy sex questions. She speaks her mind on issues, and she even has great tips on how to rock the season’s top make-up trends. ‘She’ is Amaqhawe, a magazine launched nearly two years ago, targeting sex workers in the Gert Sibande district. The magazine, produced by…
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Next to Bheki Nzuza’s desk is a large cardboard box filled with medicines – discarded antiretroviral (ARV) medicines. Nzuzu, is the operations manager at Piet Retief Hospital and on a daily basis his staff discover discarded medicines that patients enrolled for HIV treatment in their wellness centre are simply not taking, and dumping in hospital…
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Gugu Dladla is seven months pregnant, and she and her partner are both HIV positive. Knowing their HIV positive statuses, their decision to have a child wasn’t taken lightly. But more than having to weigh up the pros and cons as a private decision, one of the toughest parts of their journey to pregnancy was…
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