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Secondhand smoke more harmful to girls

Regular exposure to secondhand smoke appears to lower teen girls’ levels of the “good” cholesterol – the substance that reduces heart disease risk, researchers report.

Progress in Limpopo thanks to SECTION27

SECTION27’€™s work to improve sanitation in schools is starting to pay off, but progress is slow.

District-by-district breakdown of school toilets

Health-e News Service conducted an informal survey of the state of 17 schools’€™ toilets that fall within four of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts. Read how each district performed.

Public health facilities in a dire state

A poisonous snake slithering through a district hospital, badly cracked walls and rooms filled to the roof with broken equipment were some of the challenges facing researchers as they conducted the first national audit of public health facilities.

HIV indicators for countries and territories

This compilation includes annual estimates for prevalence of HIV infection among persons 15-49 years old and total estimated numbers of infected, all ages. Data for most countries are estimates obtained from UNAIDS/WHO, or for early years, extrapolations from UNAIDS/WHO data. For other countries data are rough estimates done by Gapminder based on information from a number of different sources, as indicated in this document.

REPORT ON THE GLOBA L AIDS EPIDEMIC, 2008

These estimates include all people with HIV infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of AIDS, in 2007 and 2001.

South Africa TB Profile

WHO country profile focussing on Tuberculosis control: covering surveillance, epidemiology and the implementation of the Stop TB strategy.

World Health Organisation Core Health Indicators 2008

World health statistics 2008 presents the most recent health statistics for South Africa, including mortality rates, life expectancy, immunisation rates and national health expenditure.

Summary of HIV Statistics for South Africa

Produced by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)

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