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The researchers found that one in four public health facilities ran out of ARVs or TB medication over a three-month period in 2014.

Survey uncovers shortages in critical medication

A survey of stock levels of HIV drugs is in stark contrast to health department claims that "there is no shortage".
Pills and more: The health department says it has developed comprehensive guidelines for the prevention of TB in prisons and the treatment of those prisoners who have the disease.

Government tackles TB in prisons

Initiatives in the past four years have greatly increased inmates’ access to healthcare.
The situation of detainees in remand is so bad

Overcrowded jails deadly, inhumane

The situation of detainees in remand is so bad, it exceeds the punishment of incarceration.
South Africa’s salt limiting legislation was a world first.

SA’s bold move on salt gets off to a shaky start

South Africans consume between 7.8 and 9.5g of salt per day, exceeding the World Health Organisation’s one teaspoon recommendation per day.
Balancing act: Transformation is complicated by the scarcity of black doctors in higher education willing to teach

Analysis: Why doesn’t medicine measure up to SA’s transformation ideal?

Student demographics are shifting, but academic staff remain predominantly white
A march to defend women's right to wear miniskirts in Johannesburg on March 4 2008 after a woman was sexually molested by taxi drivers.

‘Once he says he doesn’t want a condom, that’s that’

Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.
An estimated 6.8 million people in South Africa are HIV positive.

HIV researchers, citizens must be part of decisions

If the progress we see today is anything to go by, it means we are closer than ever to having an HIV vaccine.
Ntombikhona Ndlovu had her implant removed just three weeks after insertion because of headaches. Many other women may have been put off from trying the birth control option after rumours exaggerated side-effects

Birth control implant needs a shot in the arm

Poor training of nurses may have led to severe reactions to a new contraceptive device.
Women queue outside of a Malawian health facility for healthcare for their children. Moving rape crisis centres out of central hospitals in Malawi and into clinics closer to communities might increase the number of people who use them

Mother and child health must improve

Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.
Bittersweet: Homeopaths insist they are trained diagnosticians and study subjects such as anatomy in a bid to ensure they recognise medical conditions and provide appropriate treatment.

‘Magic’ vs science: Matter of choice

Homeopathy may now be regulated but many remedies remain untested.
Those left behind: After Ntombi Mthimunye died

When the long wait for treatment turns deadly

Johannes Mnguni believes his wife would still be alive if a Mpumalanga clinic had done its job.
Unique South African children may chart new path for HIV vaccines

‘I gave my children booze – and now I fear for their future’

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.
Survivors: Ex-prisoner Mthetho Mdekazi

Prisoners’ health rights routinely violated in SA’s jails

The HIV and TB epidemics are being exacerbated by a chronic shortage of health workers in prisons.
Despite concerns about the drug

Tense debate over ethics of trial on link between HIV, contraception

Health experts are at loggerheads over research that raises questions about the possible link between the contraceptive injection and HIV.
A girl demonstrates how to use the new washable sanitary towels.

Washable pads have the potential to bring dignity to all women

Reusable sanitary towels are cheaper than regular pads and tampons but the state is failing to distribute these to schoolgirls from poor families.
The HPCSA's competency is now being investigated by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

Headache a day helps HPCSA keep media at bay

The council issued an incorrect media statement on its Tim Noakes hearing on Friday. But its media blunders are not new.