Politics and graft undermine African health care
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The crowd of African women are tired  and angry after hours waiting in the hot sun, but the officials  will not vaccinate their children until the president  inaugurates the campaign on state television.
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The South African government&#39;s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in KwaZulu-Natal province has raised fears among AIDS activists that children&#39;s rights to health care and life are being violated.
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Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women&#39;s and Children&#39;s Health Symposium: The Feminization of HIV/Aids on Thursday, November 11, 2004, at the University of
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party, the African National Congress, has accused the US government of treating Africans like &quot;guinea pigs&quot; by promoting the use of the anti-Aids drug nevirapine.
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Â· Medical chief urges new donor schemeÂ· Observer launches reform campaign
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South Africa may lose the HIV battle as infection and death rates outpace treatment, Unicef warns.
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Blood donated by South African President Thabo Mbeki was destroyed because he did not complete a mandatory questionnaire and his race placed him in a high-risk category, a newspaper reported yesterday.
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A series of articles critical of past trials of an important AIDS drug has created a furor in Africa, causing many public health experts to worry that some countries will stop using
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Nearly one in every four South African servicemen has contracted HIV/AIDS while the country&#39;s political parties urged the government to increase public spending and education to fight against the pandemic.
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As the ANC gathers to elect its leader, a new round of corruption allegations are leveled against the leading contender, Jacob Zuma
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- The world's leading industrialized nations yesterday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, mainly in Africa, but human rights groups termed it an insufficient commitment and part of a pattern of unfulfilled promises.
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A claim by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh that he can cure Aids is lambasted by a leading HIV specialist.
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It has been a summer of dire warning about eroding health care, leading doomfully toward a health summit in September. This is not new. For a decade, virtually the entire political class and opinion elites have said our health care is not ...
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Up to half a million HIV-positive Africans die each year because health chiefs have failed to coordinate the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, the UN said yesterday.
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The government&#39;s research on using an AIDS drug to protect African babies was so flawed that health officials had to use blood tests after the fact to confirm patients got the medicine.
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afrol News, 8 December - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has demanded an apology from the South African National Blood Service after it was known that it used race to determine the risk of blood by its donors.