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The Joint Committee on HIV/AIDS has called for an intervention to deal with the increase of new infections, particularly among young women.
This follows the South African National Aids...
The loss of a child is a traumatising experience for the parents, who go through devastating emotional pain, at times undergoing the grieving process for years. The death of a newborn or stillbirth...
Honourable Speaker
I thought it appropriate to begin this presentation by refreshing our minds with facts we are very much familiar with, yet facts so important to rehearse because they, at least...
I am honoured once again to address the World TB Day. A year ago we convened in Carltonville, Gauteng, for the self-same event.
A year later we are meeting here in Pollsmoor prison, one of the...
The Gauteng AIDS Council (GAC) which is a partnership between the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) and Civil Society Networks, local government, community based organisations like non-profit...
As part of its efforts to ensure healthy human resource, Eastern Cape Department of Transport's Chris Hani District Wellness Unit together with Health Department and South African Blood Services...
One of our government’s foremost goals is to promote a healthy nation and increase the life expectancy. We have done well with the fight against HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases. We...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than 36 million people die each year from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and nearly 80% of these are from low- to middle-income countries...
The Gauteng Department of Health is calling on pregnant mothers and their partners to make use of clinics to learn more about pregnancy and prevention of sexually transmitted illnesses.
President Jacob Zuma today, 18 January 2013, met UNAIDS Executive Director and Under Secretary General Mr Michel Sidibe at his Mahlamba Ndlopfu residence in Pretoria.
Mr Sidibe congratulated...
The concept of mental health remains ignored in many developing countries, where basic primary healthcare needs are additionally neglected. The World Health Organisation (WHO) lists several risk...
It is alleged that the patient, who was kept in an isolation ward, died from severe burn wounds after burning the linen and mattress in which he was sleeping after midnight. Nurses and hospital...
I am greatly honoured to welcome you here today in keeping the candle of hope and compassion burning and as well as the promise that we have made that we will defeat HIV and Aids. Today as we...
Debates are raging within Uganda these past two weeks which have taken the country and the world by storm. Predictably, internet websites are buzzing about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which the...
South African President Jacob Zuma intends to drop a four-year-old lawsuit claiming nearly $600 000 in damages from a cartoonist who depicted him poised to rape "Lady Justice.