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Certain patients living the Western Cape and making use of public health services will be able to lodge their complaints via a system which enables patients to call, text or e-mail a complaint with a same-day response.
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Cancer patients with symptoms of depression have shorter survival times than those showing no sign of depression, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
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New evidence proving the existence of cancer stem cells may bring an end to the long-standing debate in the scientific community about how tumours grow.
A South African AIDS activist and two of the country’s top HIV doctors have tackled a well-respected journalist and author regarding what they believe are a number of errors regarding the country’s epidemic and the benefits of ARVs. By Nathan Geffen, Francois Venter and Francesca Conradie
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A number of roleplayers have made their voices heard since the publication of the new smoking regulations that will ban all indoor smoking in public places and restrict smoking in public outdoor areas.
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Simple human values may be as important for dying cancer patients as the latest medical treatment.
Activists met with new Gauteng Health MEC Hope Papo this week. Read their statement here.
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Two sessions at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington looked at the way injecting drug use, recreational drug use and unsafe sex interlock to multiply HIV risk, and how new outbreaks of injecting drug use continue to spawn localised HIV epidemics. Read more here.
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If men who have sex with men (MSM) have the option of using rapid HIV testing to screen potential sexual partners, will they do so?
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What is desperately needed are the drugs that will keep HIV-positive children alive from birth to the age of three. By Stephen Lewis
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South African study finds most women disclose HIV status to family, but far fewer to sexual partners
A study of HIV-positive people in the high-prevalence area of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa shows that a high proportion of people disclosed their HIV status to family members, generally immediately after diagnosis, but fewer disclosed their HIV status to partners.Findings from the study were reported at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)in Washington.
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Providing free school uniforms to enable children to stay in school, in addition to exposing primary school students to the national HIV/AIDS prevention curriculum, appeared to have a greater effect on reducing risky sexual behaviours among youth and in particular girls in Western Kenya than either intervention alone, Dr Vandana Sharma reported on Wednesday at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington.