9 February 2012

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Smokers neglect oral health

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Smokers are more likely to develop oral health problems such as mouth cancers, gum disease and cavities, according to new research by the US Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Health-e News
February 9, 2012

Global Fund crisis: SA projects face closure

Health Systems

South African recipients of money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) have pleaded with the health minister to intervene as they continue to wait for overdue funds.

Health-e News
February 9, 2012

Huge lab and drug challenges in Gauteng

Health, Health Systems

JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng's public health service has run out of essential lifesaving drugs and its laboratory services are about to collapse.

Health-e News
February 9, 2012

TAC ready to litigate against health department

Health Systems

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says it's ready to litigate against the Gauteng Health Department should it not clear its outstanding debt to suppliers by the end of this week. The TAC adds that the closure of health laboratories in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has severely impacted on people who are HIV-positive and those with TB.

ayandamkhwanazi
February 9, 2012

Foster care for kids after brutal attacks

Health, Health Systems

Thandi* put her two children into foster care this week, finally acknowledging that she could not manage alone as a young, unemployed, single mother.

Kerry Cullinan
February 9, 2012

Seeking justice for HIV-positive journalist Living with AIDS # 502

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Human rights and civil society groups will picket the Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, next week to call for the reinstatement of a South African journalist who was thrown out of Qatar after it was found that he has HIV.

khopotsobodibe
February 9, 2012

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