Despite the fact that cryptococcal meningitis is the second leading killer of people living with HIV, it mostly flies under the radar. According to the World Health...Weekly Roundup
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned it may not be possible to contain the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) latest Ebola outbreak to two affected...South Africa
The SA Department of Basic Education has denied claims by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) that the rollout of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for secondary...
July 4th, 2018The forced return to France of the first doctor to prescribe antiretrovirals in SA, has sparked an impassioned call from Treatment Action Campaign for the powers of the...
April 25th, 2018Doctors in North West Province have broken their silence over the ongoing health crisis in the province, calling for urgent intervention to resolve the impasse which is...
January 17th, 2018Hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are detaining hundreds of thousands of people against their will every year – many of them mothers and their new-born babies...
The Madagascar plague is spreading with 449 cases reported as at October 10, as well as three cases of the bubonic strain and one of the pneumonic strain, reported in...Weekly Roundup
SA's newly published National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV, TB and STIs 2017 – 2022 does not acknowledge the country's healthcare dysfunction, nor of the fact...Weekly Roundup
Otsuka Pharmaceutical won’t charge South Africa for using its new tuberculosis (TB) drug, delanimid, oneof the first new TB medicines to be developed in 50 years, in...Africa
The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has welcomed pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s to follow an earlier GSK decision to lower...
