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JOHANNESBURG ‘€“ Experts from around the globe are gathering this week to address the preventable and unnecessary deaths of newborns, which accounts for almost half of all deaths among children under five.
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People who struggle to quit smoking may be genetically predisposed to the habit, according to new research published in the American Medical Association journal JAMA-Psychiatry.
JOHANNESBURG ‘€“ Each year, about three million of the 7.7-million children who die before reaching their fifth birthday are newborns who do not survive their first four weeks of life. This situation has led to the top health agencies and child experts meeting in South Africa to formulate what will become the Global Newborn Action Plan.
VHEMBE. ‘€“ Matavhela pre-school made the news last year due to the poor, unsafe conditions at the facility, despite the principal’€™s request to the Department of Education’€™s to upgrade it.
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Activists have sent a final letter of demand to the Eastern Cape health MEC in an attempt to address the critical situation at Village Clinic, a busy clinic which is operating from tents.
Media Release: Activists are threatening court action unless the Eastern Cape health department urgently address the dire situation at Village Clinic in Lusikisiki. The busy clinic has been operating from tents after it was evicted from the building.
The South African Medical Association has criticised a decision by the provincial health department to ban government doctors from doing work in the private sector. Read their statement here.
Government’€™s annual death report has confirmed the trend that fewer South Africans have been dying of HIV/AIDS-related diseases. However, more people are dying of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes.
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VHEMBE. – The Department of Health and Social Development in Limpopo is collaborating with the Zimbabwean government to curb a cholera outbreak in the region.
Blurb: National health department DG Precious Matsoso summarises the progress and future plans for introducing the NHI in South Africa.
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People living with HIV in South Africa, who access antiretroviral therapy (ART) before their immune systems are severely compromised, have life expectancies close to that of the general population, researchers have found.
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One in four young people in the United Kingdom who gave up smoking last year said the ban on tobacco product displays in shops helped them to kick the habit, a survey revealed.