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Health Systems

Motsoaledi: Budgeting for health

Scholars will receive the HPV vaccine as part of government's School Health Programme from February next year, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced in his budget speech. Read the full speech here.

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May 15, 2013

Health

HIV/AIDS: A resource for journalists

This booklet was compiled several years ago by Soul City, the Department of Health and Health-e. Some of the chapters such as the contact details are outdated. However, issues such as Ethics and Media are still relevant and may be especially useful for journalism students.

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April 29, 2013

Health

Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis

Every day, approximately 1,000 women die in childbirth or from a pregnancy-related complication.The vast majority of these deaths can be prevented if access to emergency obstetric care is ensured.

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April 29, 2013

Health

DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope: 2nd Edition

This report focuses on just some of the many factors that hamper the scaling up of DR-TB treatment – the limited availability and high cost of quality-assured medicines for resistant strains of the disease, owing to an insecure market and insufficient demand; and the research questions that remain unsolved with existing medicines.

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April 29, 2013

Health

District Health Barometer 2011/12

Seasoned health professionals are familiar with the example of a busload of passengers, each instructing the driver to go in a different direction and resulting in a stationary bus as the driver cannot decide which instruction to follow.

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April 29, 2013

Health

The SA Health Review 2012/13

The SAHR 2012/13 provides information on selected issues that are relevant to the six building blocks of health systems strengthening, the Negotiated Service Delivery Agreement and primary health care re-engineering.

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April 29, 2013

Health

Smoking increases risk of rheumatoid arthritis

The risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) increases depending on both the number of cigarettes smoked a day and the number of years a person has smoked, according to research reported in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy.

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April 29, 2013

Health

F. W. de Klerk speaks out about his cancer experience

MEDIA RELEASE: Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, F. W. de Klerk knows exactly how colorectal cancer can affect someone. He was diagnosed with this type of cancer in 2006 and has been in remission for seven years now. His surprise diagnosis has made him realise that this sensitive type of cancer needs to be discussed, and receive more public awareness.

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February 28, 2013

Health

Smokers take more sick days

Smokers take on average three more sick days from work every year than non-smokers, according to a recent review published in the journal Addiction.

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February 14, 2013

Health

Radio unit to close in 2013

It is with great sadness that Health-e's Board and management have decided to close our Radio Unit in 2013.

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December 14, 2012

Our Health

E Cape community move against TB

East London: A three-day TB-awareness campaign was recently held at Duncan village in the Eastern Cape to educate the community about the symptoms and risk factors for the disease.

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December 6, 2012

Health, Men's Health

HIVSA reaches two million people via cellphone messaging this WORLD AIDS DAY

PRESS RELEASE: HIVSA in partnership with the Provincial Department of Health, Gauteng, will be sending out two million health related mobile phone messages to the general public, in support of this year's WAD initiative.

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November 28, 2012

Health

Diabetes, a ticking time bomb

It is estimated that more than 500 million people worldwide will have diabetes in 20 years' time. As World Diabetes day was commemorated last week, people have been warned to take better care of their health by reducing their risk of getting diabetes.

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November 19, 2012

Health Systems

NHI pilot district profiles

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi recently announced the 10 health districts chosen at part of a project to pilot Government's National Health Insurance (NHI) system.

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April 16, 2012

Health

Finding the others Living with AIDS # 490

More people need to find out their HIV status and come out into the open. This will help to prevent new HIV infections and to build a supportive environment, according to Positive Convention, a new social networking forum for HIV-infected people.

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September 29, 2011

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