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“Shame about her cancer stopped my sister from asking for help sooner,” a Khayalitsha woman, Monica, told the audience at a talk at the 17th Reach to Recovery International Breast Cancer Support Conference currently underway in Cape Town.
CAPE TOWN ‘€“ Late presentation by breast cancer patients in Africa remains the biggest challenge to reducing death rates, however if there is no accessible treatment there is no use in screening for cancer, experts told a meeting in Cape Town today.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Recent news reports across the world included the incredible information that a baby had been cured of HIV. Is this really true?
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MEDIA RELEASE: Mbabane, Swaziland ‘€“ Health leaders from Africa and international agencies gathered in Swaziland today to launch a fresh offensive against tuberculosis (TB), including TB among people living with HIV.
Government’s health facilities audit shows most staff fail to have “positive and caring attitude” towards patients
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MEDIA RELEASE: The University of the Witwatersrand has announced the formation of the Wits Research Institute for Malaria, (WRIM), strengthening research into one of Africa’€™s deadliest diseases.
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MEDIA RELEASE: The Lancet, the world’s leading independent family of general medical and specialty journals, today announces the forthcoming launch of a new title, The Lancet Global Health.
VHEMBE. – While many people here are still trying to recover from the damage caused by the recent floods, the community of Josefa, next to the Kruger National Park’€™s Punda Maria gate, is pleased with the steady supply of water it has brought.
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Tobacco legislation in South Africa is constantly changing, and ignorant smokers may find themselves on the wrong side of the law with fines of up to R100 000. Here’s what smokers should know, and new changes thay can expect in future.
MEDIA RELEASE: The National Department of Health has embarked on an initiative to improve and expand access to healthcare services through the contracting of private General Medical Practitioners (GPs) to render sessional service in Primary Healthcare facilities.
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Aidsmap: A study from France has found 14 adult patients who also started a course of ART soon after infection, who subsequently stopped it, and have not had to re-start because they have largely ‘€“ and in eight cases completely ‘€“ maintained undetectable viral loads for at least four years after stopping therapy (a baby has, so far, only managed a year off therapy). Read the full aidsmap article here.
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South African scientists have dismissed predictions of a possible public health emergency following reports from Australia that a small number of swine flu patients were resistant to the first-line treatment, Tamiflu.