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In April 2014, the Free State health department terminated the services of around 3,800 community healthworkers (CHW) – apparently for being too old and under-educated – despite many years’ service supplementing the province’s inadequate care for its sick.
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Released in May 2015, the 52-page guidelines covers subjects like human rights, informed consent as well as self testing.
Released in April 2015, the 136-page guidelines introduce important changes in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission as well as the treatment of children and adolescents.
- ///Our Health
As food prices continue to climb, we look at how four South African families are coping.
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The 28-page guidelines outline the diagnosis of a number of sexual transmitted infections (STIs) including public lice, syphilis and genital warts.
This Department of Health handbook is aimed at guiding the work of District Clinical Specialist Teams introduced as part of South Africa’s National Health Insurance.
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Launched by the Department of Health yesterday, this free app puts South Africa’s HIV guidelines at the fingertips of health workers and patients.
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The Stop Stock Outs Project’s second annual survey was conducted among about 2,500 of the country’s 4,200 health facilities and shows slightly worse results than its previous 2013 survey.
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Compiled by the Human Sciences Research Council, this stigma index released at the SA AIDS 2015 Conference is the world’s largest study into HIV stigma.
More than three years after Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi first announced National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts, Health-e News tracks what the NHI has meant on the ground and in people’s lives.
One common medical aid for all South Africans, as envisaged by government’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, is many years away, but many of the country’s 10 pilot sites are making progress.
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Researchers from the Wits Reproductive and HIV Research Unit, Aurum Institute and others call for an urgent response to high levels of tuberculosis (TB) infection in South African Health workers.