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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.
In 2010 the World Health Organisation (WHO) changed the HIV treatment guidelines for poor countries and recommended switching from stavudine (D4T) to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) for all patients on first line treatment. OPINION by Vuyiseka Dubula (Quackdown)
OurHealth: Winterveldt ‘€“ A number of non-governmental organisations who were in the past supported by the United States President’€™s Emergency Plan for AIDS (Pepfar) are closing at the end of March because they have failed to secure alternative funding.
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi yesterday (TUES) launched a Health Academy, headed by a group of top health experts, designed to improve the management capacity in the public sector’€™s clinics, health districts and hospitals. By Health-e.
PRESS RELEASE: Almost 10 000 healthcare practitioners were suspended from the Health Professions Council of South Africa’€™s (HPCSA) register this past weekend for failure to pay their annual fees.
A large number of clinics and hospitals in the Eastern Cape are experiencing critical medicine shortages and stock outs while surgery and other procedures have virtually grind to a halt due to a wildcat strike by staff at the Mthatha Health Complex (MHC).