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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).
OurHealth. ‘ A community in Tshwane is taking charge of their health situation and creating awareness of National Health Insurance (NHI) efforts that are taking place in their area.
OurHealth – Itlotliseng Primary School learners in Tseki village, Phuthaditjhaba (Qwa-Qwa) in the Free State have to every day deal with dirty toilets and unreliable access to water.
OurHealth. – A group of grade eight learners from the Paul Roux Intermediate School in the town of Paul Roux in the Free State were visited by a nurse as part of the Integrated School Health Programme of the National Health Insurance (NHI).
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Bans on smoking in public places have reduced hospitalisations for heart attacks, strokes and asthma. This is according to a new study published in the journal Circulation.
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OurHealth. – Tumi (not her real name) was at death’s door when her grandmother carried her on her back to the Golden Gateway Hospice in Bethlehem, in the Free State. Story by Thamsanqa Majola.
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Routine breast cancer screening results in a reduced risk of dying from breast cancer but also results in overdiagnosis, according to an independent panel of experts reporting in The Lancet.
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The European Union’s (EU) revised Tobacco Products Directive ‘ which was set to place substantial new restrictions on tobacco companies’ promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, including banning ‘e-cigarettes’ ‘ is dangerously close to stalling.