TB

Stories of hope in the fight against HIV/Aids

SA has the most people living with HIV in the world, but facilities like the Themba Lethu clinic are helping those infected to cope and survive.

In the early 90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/Aids patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health centre until they died.

Two decades later the clinic is the biggest anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment centre in the country and sees between 600 to 800 patients a day from all over southern Africa.

Source URL: 
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-12-01-stories-of-hope-in-fight-against-hivaids/

Spending Well on Wellness: HIV/AIDS and TB Budget Monitoring at Local Level in South Africa

Based on the principle that social accountability is enabled through participation by an empowered civil society that demands efficiency and transparency, the three-year journey of a South African Budget Monitoring and Expenditure Tracking (BMET) project demonstrates that citizen involvement in economic governance is both possible and progressing.

Conducted by the Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa (CEGAA) in partnership with the Treatment Action Campaign, the BMET project is funded by the Open Society Institute - New York (OSI-NY), Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) and International Budget Partnership (IBP).

Source URL: 
http://www.ngopulse.org/article/spending-well-wellness-hivaids-and-tb-budget-mon...

Maternal, Child and Women’s Health/PMTCT Clinical Advisor

Employer: 
Stellenbosch University: South to South Programme for Comprehensive Family HIV Care & Treatment (Tygerberg Campus)
Closing Date: 
30 November 2012

(Five-year contract appointment with possible extension)

(Ref: TGB14/411/1112)

Childhood TB from Neglect to Action

Published by: 
ACTION

Even though it’s preventable and treatable, tuberculosis (TB) is a top ten killer of children worldwide.

ACTION has released its second brief on children and TB, issuing recommendations for the international community and affected countries to combat this neglected epidemic.

Since ACTION released its first Childhood TB brief last year, the global community has paid attention. 

But we need to keep the momentum going. Children are still misdiagnosed, unaccounted for, and lack access to appropriate pediatric TB drugs.

Easy patents cost patients

South Africa grants almost every patent application it receives, making its patent regime one of the world’s most lenient. While pharmaceutical companies cash in, patients face staggering healthcare costs, and medicines like cancer treatments, third-line antiretrovirals (ARVs) and treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) are often priced out of reach.

Source URL: 
http://www.plusnews.org/Report/96712/SOUTH-AFRICA-Easy-patents-cost-patients

Health Systems Strengthening Facilitators

Employer: 
Health Systems Trust
Closing Date: 
9 November 2012

PURPOSE:

Health Systems Trust wishes to appoint 132 Health Systems Strengthening facilitators to support interventions at sub district, facility and community level in support of the South Africa Sustainable Response to HIV and AIDS (SA SURE) project. SA SURE aims to strengthen local capacity to provide sustainable HIV and TB-related care and treatment services, within each of the sub districts listed below. This is a one year, fixed-term contract position, renewable based on funding availability and performance.

Paediatric HIV Clinical Advisor

Employer: 
Stellenbosch University: South to South Programme for Comprehensive Family HIV Care & Treatment (Tygerberg Campus)
Closing Date: 
5 October 2012

One-year contract appointment with possible extension
(Ref. TGB14/288/0912)

Duties:

HIV Nurse Advisor

Employer: 
Stellenbosch University: South to South Programme for Comprehensive Family HIV Care & Treatment (Tygerberg Campus)
Closing Date: 
5 October 2012

One-year contract appointment with possible extension
(Ref. TGB14/287/0912)

Duties:

Program Manager: Training & Development

Employer: 
Stellenbosch University: South to South Programme for Comprehensive Family HIV Care & Treatment (Tygerberg Campus)
Closing Date: 
5 October 2012

One-year contract appointment with possible extension

(Ref. TGB14/286/0912)

Duties:

Hospital crises: Litigation looms in Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape Health and Treasury MECs have been given an ultimatum to either reply to a set of questions related to the staffing crises at Madwaleni and Livingstone hospitals, or face litigation.

 

Madwaleni, a 180-bed rural hospital, which as recently as three years ago had one of the best antiretroviral treatment programmes in Africa, is now operating with one Dutch doctor, who is only able to see complicated HIV and TB cases.

The overworked doctor has indicated that she will resign unless the situation improves, leaving the hospital with no doctor.

Two Clinical Associates, in their first year of employment, are working unsupervised.

Source URL: 
http://www.health-e.org.za/news/article.php?uid=20033783