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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.
SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign have sent an open letter to Gauteng Health MEC Hope Papo. In it, they respond to the claims in his opinion piece published by Health-e as well as continuing challenges in the health system. Read it here.
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The South African Government isn’€™t often praised for their health care efforts, however, one thing that they did do right was to take a firm stance against tobacco early on, according to an international health expert.
Health activists have highlighted on-going medicine and consumable shortages, broken equipment and inadequate human resources at all Gauteng hospitals in response to Health MEC Hope Papo’€™s recent claims that his department is on top of matters.
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Quitting smoking was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease in adults without diabetes, despite subsequent weight gain, according to a new study in JAMA.
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Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, who has been reigning in the use tobacco products with strict legislation, has now also set his sights on the liquor industry.
Gauteng health MEC Hope Papo has responded to the SECTION27 report which last week painted a grim picture of poor health service delivery. Read his statement here.
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Teenagers who cannot afford a pack of cigarettes sustain the habit by buying cigarettes one at a time.
OPINION: This International Women’€™s Day, we have much to celebrate. In the past year alone, we have made tremendous strides in women’€™s health and equality: the United Nations adopted a historic resolution to end female genital mutilation; global leaders convened at the London Summit on Family Planning to make US$2.6 billion in new financial pledges and a series of unparalleled policy commitments to family planning; and together, we celebrated the first-ever International Day of the Girl Child. By Jill Sheffield & Fred Sai
LUSIKISIKI. ‘€“ Five governmental departments in this Eastern Cape village have been without electricity for weeks. The district offices for the Departments of Education, Health, Social Development, Traffic and the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) have been unable to provide services to communities here because their electricity was cut.