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MEDIA RELEASE: Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA (Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa) is being bestowed with the Order of Mapungubwe: Bronze by the South African State President on Freedom Day (27 April 2013) in recognition of her ‘outstanding work in the field of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis research and health policy development.’ The Order of Mapungubwe is South Africa’s highest honour.
VHEMBE. – The clinic management and staff at Matavhela clinic came up with a strategy to help their HIV/AIDS patients take their antiretrovirals (ARVs) regularly.
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A third of high school pupils in the Western Cape are using tobacco, alcohol, and dagga, a survey by the Medical Research Council (MRC) revealed.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Scientists in China have confirmed for the first time that the influenza A H7N9 virus has transmitted from birds’specifically, chicken at a wet poultry market’to humans, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet.
THOHOYANDOU. – The Department of Health and Social Development in Limpopo is urging everyone who was turned away from clinics and hospitals in the region because of medicine stock outs to go back and get assistance.
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HIV-positive smokers are at high risk of contracting bacterial pneumonia – a common and serious lung infection in people living with HIV – compared to their non-smoking counterparts.
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It’s hard to imagine that gold is more than a rich person’s trinket and actually plays a role in healthcare. But tiny nano-particles of gold are being used in rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) that can identify malaria in 20 minutes, according to the World Gold Council.
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MEDIA RELEASE: This is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its ‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria’ campaign, says Dr Pete Vincent of Netcare Travel Clinics and Medicross Family Medical and Dental Centres. Read more here.
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TSHWANE. – A youth camp with the theme: ‘Together taking responsibility to end HIV infection; ‘No’ to teenage pregnancy, ‘No’ to discrimination, and ‘No’ to gender based Violence’ was recently held at the Stoney Ridge camp site in Magaliesburg.
GERT SIBANDE. ‘ In April all eyes were on Mpumalanga as the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) held its first plenary meeting for the year here.
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MEDIA RELEASE: On the eve of the high-level Global Vaccines Summit hosted by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that high prices for new vaccines could put developing countries in the precarious situation of not being able to afford to fully vaccinate their children in the future.
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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.