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MEDIA RELEASE: An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2012.
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This video spotlights the devastating global tobacco epidemic and how the tobacco industry works to addict new users, especially kids.
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Story by Thamsanqa Majola, OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Bethlehem in the Free State.
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Story by Mishack Mahlangu, the OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the Tshwane district in Gauteng.
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Lung cancer patients who quit smoking longer than a year before being diagnosed have better survival outcomes than patients who continue to smoke. This is according to a new study published in the journal Cancer.
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The first detailed study to estimate the global impact of cancer has revealed that nearly 170 million years of healthy life were lost in 2008 because of the disease.
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Story by Thandeka Vinjwa, OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape.
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Story by Mtshana Mvlisi, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape.
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Article by Lungile Ngubane, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting form the Mgungundlovu district in KwaZulu-Natal.
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With effective treatment and dedicated paediatric cancer units in place, very few children should be dying from cancer in South Africa. Yet, only one in three present for treatment. Today (Friday, 15 February) is International Childhood Cancer Day and time to reflect on the childhood cancer situation in the country.
PRESS STATEMENT. – Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, announced a landmark $19.4 million in support of 15 innovative, pioneering projects designed to improve mental health diagnosis and care in developing countries, many of them nations ravaged by conflict and disaster as well as poverty.
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Today a 77 year old paediatric oncologist sits in prison in Abu Dhabi while he waits to be retried for an offence he was originally convicted of more than 10 years ago, in absentia. Although that original conviction has been set aside he has been charged again with manslaughter, even though the courts apparently have no files or contact with the family of the dead patient.