Health Minister Jane Aceng has said the trial treatment has been cleared by the the National Council of Science and Technology and National Drugs Authority and comes shortly after ... Read more »

In a decision that baffled some critics, the World Health Organization's advisory committee, the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee has declared that the Read more »

Nurses at all state health institutions have threatened to begin reporting for duty only twice a week, arguing they can no longer afford transport fares. The decision comes after ... Read more »

allAfrica's Sethekele Ncube, in Durban for the SA Aids Conference, reports that it has now been proven that Depo Provera, one of Africa's most popular contraceptives, doesn't make ... Read more »

The ministry of health has said that health officials will remain on high alert since reports of an outbreak in neighbouring Uganda where two people died of the disease. Read more »

The World Health Organization has said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo which has spilled into Uganda is an "extraordinary event" of deep concern but does not yet merit ... Read more »

The revelation comes despite claims made by Health Minister Obadiah Moyo to the effect that the Zimbabwe has supplies of ARVs that could last until 2020. It has also been revealed ... Read more »

For South Africa to improve antiretroviral adherence, it needs a package of other interventions at a social, systemic and individual level. Innovative breakthroughs are also needed ... Read more »

The grandmother of a five-year-old boy who died of Ebola in Uganda has also died, a health ministry source has told local newspaper the Daily Monitor. The patients were being ... Read more »

Uganda's health ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) have confirmed the first Ebola case in the east African nation since the current outbreak began in eastern ... Read more »