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Women's Health

Investing in women

KUALA LUMPUR – Women remain the last to be fed, schooled and given access to healthcare, despite huge gains, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the 3rd Women Deliver meeting this week. Speaking via video, Clinton said the…

ansothom
May 31, 2013

Health

Yuvraj Singh’s biggest test

KUALA LUMPUR – If their lives were at stake and someone had to bat their way out of trouble, chances are excellent that any cricket fan would select Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh to hit the winning six. This week “Yuvie”,…

ansothom
May 29, 2013

Health

Who, what, where, when and how? – reporting the full HIV and AIDS story

Idasa and the Journalism Department at the University of Stellenbosch held a workshop for community journalists, tackling the issue of Governance and HIV/AIDS. Health-e journalist Anso Thom spoke to the participants.

ansothom
April 29, 2013

Health

Media needs to stop sitting on the sidelines

Government committed itself to having 53 000 people on antiretrovirals (ARVs) by the end of 2004. What are the challenges government faces in rolling out? What is the hold up? Is government dragging its feet, is there a lack of political will or are there real problems with implementation? And what role do the media have to play in all of this? The HIV/AIDS and the Media Project and the Journalism Department at the University of Stellenbosch hosted a panel discussion addressing these very questions. Anso Thom was one of the panellists.

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April 29, 2013

Health Systems

Gauteng: Patient’s five weeks of hell and death

Patient CZ's horror story represents a myriad of breakdowns within the Gauteng health system ranging from stockouts of critical drugs, long delays in investigative and diagnostic procedures and stockouts of basics such as clean linen.

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March 4, 2013

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems

RR Section: Almost no toilets

RR Section is flanked by Lansdowne Road and Mew Way, both major arteries through the sprawling township of Khayelitsha. Ramshackle shacks are tightly knit with eroded and sodden dirt roads and footpaths cutting between the homes with a massive uninhabitable marsh right in the middle.

ansothom
June 9, 2010

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems

Deathly effects of no toilets

Diarrhoea, death, disability. Anso Thom uncovers the indignity of living without sanitation.

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June 9, 2010

Health, Health Systems

New health minister means end of govt AIDS ‘denialism’

New Health Minister Barbara Hogan and deputy Dr Molefi Sefularo are renowned for hard work and integrity

ansothom
September 25, 2008

Health

Nutrition and health

A grim picture has emerged of the eating patterns of South African children with more than 72 percent of those who took part in a survey surviving on a daily diet of only sugar and maize. Anso Thom reports.

ansothom
March 20, 2003

Health

ARV provision ‘a reality’

Universal access to Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy (HAART) will become an inevitable reality in South Africa over the next three to seven years, according the South African Health Review. Anso Thom reports.

ansothom
March 20, 2003

Health

Budget shortfalls in Global Fund costs lives

Between six and nine million people in developing countries currently urgently need anti-retroviral treatment while in reality only between 230 000 and 300 000 have access to these drugs, according to a report by HealthGAP, a US-based human rights group.

ansothom
March 19, 2003

Health

Health and the budget

Investigations into the introduction of a national anti-retroviral programme for South Africans living with HIV/AIDS are far advanced and recommendations are close to finalisation, it was announced in this week's budget documents. Anso Thom reports.

ansothom
February 27, 2003

Health

ARV’s what it would cost

CAPE TOWN - The cost of a state supported anti-retroviral programme in its most expensive year could be below R10-billion and still be highly effective, according to calculations by Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

ansothom
February 26, 2003

Health

Profiting from AIDS

Drug companies are continuing to sell anti-retrovirals at hugely inflated prices in South Africa with some branded drugs selling for up to eight times more than generic versions available worldwide but that are not yet manufactured locally.

ansothom
February 25, 2003

Health

Health provision: The Year ahead

The sharp increase in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa can be attributed to the loss of Directly Observed Treatment Short-course Strategy (DOTS) workers to the more lucrative field of caring for people living with HIV/AIDS, health department officials admitted this week. Anso Thom reports.

ansothom
February 21, 2003

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