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Older HIV-positive people use their influence to manipulate young girls into having sex.
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Tobacco experts recently voiced their concern about the rising prevalence of smoking in the developing world, especially Latin America, which puts these populations at risk of being overwhelmed by a burgeoning cancer epidemic.
Remunerative Work Outside the Public Service or RWOPS. It is a mouthful and as provincial health departments start tightening the screws it has become a hot potato, especially in Gauteng where some specialists are threatening to resign.
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Regular exposure to secondhand smoke appears to lower teen girls’ levels of the “good” cholesterol – the substance that reduces heart disease risk, researchers report.
SECTION27’€™s work to improve sanitation in schools is starting to pay off, but progress is slow.
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.
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.
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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.
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These estimates include all people with HIV infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of AIDS, in 2007 and 2001.
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South Africa Department of Health Annual Report 2007
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South African Department of Health Annual Data