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In this presentation, Dr. Norbert Ndjeka, director of the Department of Health’s DR-TB, TB & HIV division, presents the latest drug-resistant TB figures.
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StatsSA’s latest report on causes of death in South Africa shows slow continued declines in deaths due to communicable diseases like HIV but increases in deaths due to injuries and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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The Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) responds to Constitutional Court case brought against the Minister of Health and the Health Professions Council of South Africa by a junior doctor.
Watch and listen to the controversial presentation by the Africa Centre’s Guy Harling that questions the relationship between sugar daddies and HIV risk in rural communities.
Stock-outs and poor vaccine storage stand between life-saving immunizations and South African children. Take a look as Health-e explores the issue from Pretoria to the Eastern Cape.
A national Health-e investigation of one of the most basic services – childhood vaccinations – found vaccine stock-outs in clinics and measles cases in major cities.
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From new measles cases to vaccine stock-outs, here is a snapshot of what a Health-e News Investigation found from Gauteng to Mpumalanga.
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Ahead of South Africa’s election, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has released its “People’s Health Manifesto.”
Updated in 2010, these guidelines include South Africa’s introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate and rotavirus vaccines.
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The 16-page newsletter highlights policy moves aimed at addressing HIV among sex workers, the selection of a new Global Fund principle recipient and reflects on the death of soap actress Lesego Motsepe, who was reportedly no longer on HIV treatment at the time of her death.
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The Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) report charts facts, sources and commentary on rural health in South African provinces.
The Treatment Action Campaign has released an updated version of its analysis of proposed patent reforms in South Africa.