News
HST collects relevant news from a variety of sources, for your convenience and thus has no control over the content of these news articles. Select a story from below, or use our search feature to find stories of interest.

Press Release: Study concludes, initiation of antiretroviral treatment protects uninfected sexual partners from HIV infection
HIV Prevention Trials Network
2011-05-13

Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners through initiation of oral antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to findings from a large multinational clinical study conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), a global partnership dedicated to reducing the transmission of HIV...
  Full text

Accepting Abstracts: The 7th Annual Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) Conference
2011-05-11

The 7th PHASA 2011 Conference Gauteng, South Africa 28 - 30 November 2011 Closing the health equity gap: Public health leadership, education and practice
  Full text

2011-04-07

  Full text

Senior Researcher
HST
2011-04-08

Closing date: 26 April 2011

We have a vacancy in the organisation for a Senior Researcher. This is a one-year contract position which is renewable based on funding and performance.
  Full text

Monitoring & Evaluation Manager
SoulCity
2011-03-25

Closing date: 5 April 2011

Soul City Institute uses a unique combination of media, social mobilisation and advocacy to create an enabling environment for social change, empowering audiences to make healthy choices, both as individuals and as communities. We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and suitably qualified professional to...
  Full text

Community Health Workers - A Brief Description of the HST Experience
Nonceba Languza, Thembekile Lushaba, Nomthandazo Magingxa, Mzikazi Masuku and Tshitshi Ngubo
2011-02-08

A Community Health Worker (CHW) may be defined as any health worker delivering health care services and who is trained in the context of the intervention but has no formal professional, certificated or degreed tertiary education. CHW is an umbrella term used for a heterogeneous group of health workers, their scope of practice ranging from...
  Full text

Health Systems Trust and the National Lotteries Board join hands to assist in the President's HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign
HST
2011-01-31

In what has been described as a significant boost towards implementing the governments HCT campaign, the National Lotteries Board (NLB) has allocated R85 million to Health Systems Trust (HST) to provide HIV test kits and related commodities as well as TB prophylaxis to the public sector as well as private sector partners. This is the outcome of...
  Full text

Way paved for the establishment of Office of Health Standards Compliance
Department of Health
2011-01-24

The Department of Health has moved a step closer to the establishment of the Office of Health Standards Compliance with the release today of the National Health Amendment Bill for public comments. The Bill proposes an amendment of the existing National Health Act through the establishment of the Office of Health Standards Compliance.
  Full text

PRESS RELEASE: South African Health Review 2010
HST
2010-12-13

Theme: REFLECTIONS ON THE MDGs AND PERSPECTIVES ON A NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE

In only five more years we will reach the target date for achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the year 2000 a total of 189 countries agreed on targets to reduce poverty and improve health by 2015. How is South Africa faring in...
  Full text

The South African Health Review was launched in Pretoria on 8 December 2010
HST
2010-12-15

Combining reflections on South Africas progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and perspectives on a National Health Insurance for South Africa, the 14th edition of the SAHR promises to provide a useful resource for public health practitioners in both nationally and locally.
  Full text

MDG TB target out of reach
Anso Thom, Health-e
2010-12-13

South Africa remains below target on reaching the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) pertaining to tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, according to the 2010 South African Health Review.
  Full text

SA's babies malnourished when they die
Anso Thom, Health-e
2010-12-06

At least a third of South African children who died in 2007 were severely malnourished and a further 30% were underweight for age while on average over half were known or suspected to be HIV infected.
  Full text