29 April 2013

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Malaria is not someone else’s problem, it is everyone’s

Health

MEDIA RELEASE: This is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its “Invest in the future. Defeat malaria” campaign, says Dr Pete Vincent of Netcare Travel Clinics and Medicross Family Medical and Dental Centres. Read more here.

Health-e News
April 29, 2013

Sugar drinks increase diabetes risk by 22% – Study

Health

MEDIA RELEASE: Drinking one (or one extra)* 336ml serving size of sugar-sweetened soft drink a day can be enough to increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 22%, a new study suggests.

Health-e News
April 29, 2013

H7N9: No evidence of person-to-person transmission

Health

MEDIA RELEASE: Scientists in China have confirmed for the first time that the influenza A H7N9 virus has transmitted from birds—specifically, chicken at a wet poultry market—to humans, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet. Since its…

Health-e News
April 29, 2013

6-year-old gang raped in Limpopo

Gender Based Violence, Health

VHEMBE. – With news about the gruesome rape and murder of Anene Booysen still fresh in the country’s psyche, news about the gang rape of a six-year-old girl shook the community of Mulodi Village in Limpopo where the crime took place.

suprisenemalale
April 29, 2013

Garbage poses health threat to community

Determinants Of Health, Our Health

TSHWANE. – The community of Soshanguve Block L is fed up with the foul smell coming off the heaps of uncollected garbage piling up in the area.

tshilidzituwani
April 29, 2013

Long lines, poor service at Kgabo Health Centre

Health, Health Systems

TSHWANE. - The staff and patients at Kgabo Health Centre in Winterveld are unhappy with the conditions at the facility ' the staff complain that do not receive support from the regional office while patients are concerned about the long waiting periods.

Health-e News
April 29, 2013

Wits Faculty of Health Science Professor receives South Africa’s highest honour

Health, Health Systems

MEDIA RELEASE: On the 27th April 2013 President Jacob Zuma honoured Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Glenda Gray with South Africa's highest honour - the Order of Mapungubwe - for her life-saving research focusing on the mother to child transmission of HIV.

Health-e News
April 29, 2013

New pills bring new hope

Health, Men's Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. - All twelve clinics in the Qaukeni sub-district in the Eastern Cape are dispensing the new fixed dose combination pill (FDC) to HIV patients. This new pill is a triple antiretroviral that is believed to improve adherence as it only needs to be taken once a day. The fact that ARV treatment now consist of just one tablet will make it easier to dispense and prescribe, and make ordering and monitoring stock supply easier for clinics and depots.

tandekahlongwane
April 29, 2013

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