Damaged roads affect health services in Vhembe
VHEMBE. ' Heavy rains have caused serious damage to roads in the Vhembe district causing serious problems for health services in the area.
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8 February 2013
The failure of cancer medicine?
The Lancet: Feb 4 was World Cancer Day, an opportunity to critically consider progress against cancer. Is it fair to say that the cancer medical community has failed patients living with cancer? This is a harsh statement, but according to respected oncologist, Franco Cavalli, whose Comment leads a discussion about cancer in today's Lancet: "Current strategies to control cancer are demonstrably not working."
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Society Must Act to End All forms of Violence
Media Release: Sonke Gender Justice joins the growing number of South Africans expressing shock and outrage over the horrific gang rape, mutilation, and murder of 17-year old Anene Booysen. 'We send our condolences to her family and to the Bredasdorp community, and call on the authorities to investigate this crime and ensure that the perpetrators are punished to the full extent of the law,' says Sonke's chairperson Sisonke Msimang.
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E Cape patients protest over poor service
LUSIKISIKI. ' Patients and community members from this Eastern Cape village clashed with police during a march to the local office of the Department of Health where they delivered a memorandum of grievances about the health services in the area.
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E Cape DoH should answer to community
LUSIKISIKI. ' Communities in the Eastern Cape are up in arms about the breakdown in health services in this province and activist groups here are pressurising local and provincial departments for answers and solutions.
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