Health Hour The Real Network

Get the latest on mankind's mission to find a vaccine or cure for HIV/Aids as Dr Michelle Moorhouse chats with Prof. Penny Moore, Reader and NRF/DST South African Research Chair of Virus Host Dynamics at Wits University and NICD.

How safe, reliable and accurate is HIV self-testing? Well, joining Dr Moorhouse to answer this is Mohammed Majam from Wits RHI and Jonathan Gunthorp, the Executive Director of the Southern African AIDS Trust.

Are you in the right mindset for 2016? Kamini Pather thinks we could all use a little guidance, she is joined by a psychologist who will give both western and eastern advice. They look at what healthy New Year's resolutions are and tackle depression and overall mental health, ensuring you're geared up to kick 2016's A$$. Donovan Goliath joins to reveal the dark side of comedians and his own experience with depression.

What should you do in the first few seconds of an emergency? Netcare 911 Clinical Head, Richard Mulder, tells you this and has some first aid for beginners that he wants to share. Then, creative director Conn Bertish, tells of how he instinctively viewed his life-threatening cancer diagnosis as a challenge and what solutions he found that helped to save his life.

Leading expert in stress management, Dr Arien van der Merwe, believes that stress is essential to 21st century survival. She shares practical tools and techniques to manage and take an integrated approach to stress. Then, any parent with a child battling addiction will tell you how difficult and invasive regular drug testing can be, Russell Hutton talks about the future of non-invasive drug testing kits, joining him is a mother who knows first hand the difficulties of traditional testing methods.

It's an unavoidable part of a woman's life, with an estimation 25 million women every year entering menopause. Dr Sibongile Nomganga tells you what's happening to your body, what symptoms to expect, how your menstrual cycle will change, as well as how to cope with hot flushes and night sweats.