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Lusikisiki- Twelve clinics and two hospitals that fall under the Qaukeni local district are continuing to experience critical drug shortages and stock outs.
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Professor Janet Hapgood of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Cape Town has received US$100 000 to pursue research into the best contraception for women at risk of HIV infection.
Vhembe – Villagers from Matavhela and Mufulwi have had their tap water supplies restored after alerting OurHealth that they had to rely on unsafe rain and river water.
OurHealth: Tshwane ‘€“ The provincial Department of Health in Gauteng recently celebrated World Stroke Day at the KT Motubatse Centre in the township of Soshanguve, in Tshwane, Gauteng.
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Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
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African leaders were criticised for failing to prioritise immunisation with life-saving vaccines for children under five years of age to prevent deadly infectious diseases.
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The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) at the University of Stellenbosch will today receive an international award for its groundbreaking research into childhood TB and for its pioneering community-based approaches to TB and HIV care.
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Results from a pivotal, large-scale Phase III trial, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate can help protect African infants against malaria. Read the rest of the press release.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes in the Wall Street Journal that South African mines are incubating a deadly form of tuberculosis that is spreading world-wide. Read the full article.
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has established a fund in partnership with 23 of South Africa’€™s largest private medical aid, pharmacy, drug and hospital companies in an effort to bolster human resource capacity in the public sector.
OurHealth: Vhembe ‘€“ Two local clinics are experiencing critical drug shortages, with both reporting that they are at times only able to dispense Panado.
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OurHealth: Vhembe – Three out of 10 Zimbabwean women are gang-raped when they try to cross the border through the Limpopo River to South Africa, according to a church leader who runs two shelters in Mussina.