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The Minister of Health Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang will launch the Department of Health's Expanded Programme on Immunisation in Lenyenye, Limpopo Province on Thursday, 1st July to raise awareness about immunisation and fast track the ongoing national immunisation campaign against polio and measles...read more

The electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research & Development' (AFRO-NETS) was established in 1997 to facilitate exchange of information among different networks active in Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa, and to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity building, planning, and research...read more

MINISTERS Health attending the Eastern, Central and Southern African (ECSA) five-day 40th Regional Conference on Community Health in Victoria Falls yesterday launched the sub-region's $51 billion three-year strategic plan, whose main objective is to improve the ailing health delivery systems of member states...read more

Creative brilliance by a group at UCT's Mechanical Engineering department has seen the development of novel prostheses for cancer patients at a fraction of the cost. For many patients the alternative is having the limb amputated. Jonathan (19), the first patient to receive a prosthesis recently had a check-up, over a year after receiving the implant. He spoke to Health-e about the experience of having to learn to walk all over again...read more

In the first ever study tracking the safety of blood transfusions in SA, the SA National Blood Service (SANBS) found that local blood services are as safe as those in any developed country. Kathryn Strachan reports...read more

A medical research centre to study diseases that most affect Africa is in the final stages of being established at the University of Cape Town. The new institute will concentrate on a variety of diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria, major cancers and various genetic and metabolic disorders. It also hopes to reduce the "brain drain" by offering South African scientists a place to pursue top quality research...read more

This is a non-governmental agency which was established to promote health sciences in Africa with Dr Davy Koech as its first President. It was formed in 1994 with its current Secretariat based in Nairobi and housed in the KEMRI premises..read more

South Africa Partners, Inc. (SA Partners) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of long-term partnership opportunities between the United States and South Africa. Building on the efforts of tens of thousands of individuals across the United States who supported the international movement for democracy in South Africa, SA Partners seeks to support those efforts which promote South Africa's equitable and sustainable development...read more

Spreading vital information around the world, E-DRUG is the English version of SATELLIFE's electronic discussion groups on essential drugs. E-DRUG is used by health care professionals, researchers and policy makers to obtain and discuss current information on essential drugs, policy, program activities, education and training. Members also use E-DRUG to announce and learn of upcoming conferences or courses in their field...read more

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