New model for HIV data takes into account new science
Researchers are designing a new model for determining the demographic impact of HIV and AIDS in South Africa.
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23 March 2010
I didn’t think I’d have TB
My name is Lungi Langa. I am a 24-year-old HIV-negative health journalist. I am living with TB. It sounds odd when I say that. But it's real.
Read More » I didn’t think I’d have TB42 human cases of RVF & animal cases have spread to North West
To date Tuesday morning, 23 March 2010, the National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) has reported 42 laboratory confirmed human cases of Rift Valley Fever (RVF). There has been no increase since Sunday.
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Elton John gives £1m to SA project
Sir Elton John today (23 March) announced from Cape Town, South Africa, the granting of a £984,000 award to mothers2mothers (m2m) to be used to help prevent hundreds of thousands of babies across Africa from contracting HIV and empowering mothers living with HIV.
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GF Jooste leads the way in TB care
A TB Unit at one of South Africa's busiest hospitals is at the forefront of showing why this disease which is killing thousands of South Africans, is curable.
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‘Danger pay’ for TB staff
Durban healthworkers who treat patients with drug-resistant TB should be given special incentives such as 'danger pay'.
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Quackery taken to task
OPINION:Nathan Geffen's book Debunking Delusions reminds us what can go wrong when AIDS denialists are given the time of day. The book also documents clearly how we can fight denialism in a manner that saves lives and respects science. What is clear given the resurgence of AIDS denialist propaganda is that now is not the time to sit back.
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‘Together we can kick TB out of Khayelitsha”
MSF, TAC, City of Cape Town, and Western Cape Province Department of Health show decentralised integrated TB/HIV care results in improved outcomes.
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