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‘We believe that after six months, our patients will have become strong so they can go back and do their usual work,’ said Esther Oduli, a social worker in Western Kenya, who works for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH).
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When the International AIDS Conference was last held in Washington, D.C. in 1987, Ronald Reagan was U.S. president, the Soviet Union stood, a wall scarred a divided Berlin and China’s economy was roughly the size of Spain’s. The wider world ‘ and the AIDS epidemic ‘ has changed more than anyone foresaw. By David Wilson
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Despite substantial progress in tackling the HIV epidemic worldwide in the past two decades, there is one population in which the epidemic continues to grow in countries of all incomes: men who have sex with men (MSM). A six-part Series by THE LANCET, explore the unique aspects of the HIV epidemic in MSM, showing that factors such as the biology of HIV transmission in anal sex and the characteristics of MSM networks, as well as known behavioural factors, are driving the epidemic in this population.
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Sport scientist Professor Tim Noakes continued his controversial stance yesterday, stating that dietary advice fed to the public for the last few decades are part of a conspiracy to promote higher consumption of corn-based products that are harmful to human health.
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A number of papers are carrying stories about the prospects for an HIV cure – this commentary in The Lancet explains what the Berlin patient has taught us.
A far-flung Northern Cape town has been making world headlines over the last few years. Unfortunately for the wrong reasons – a 2002-study revealed that more than one in 10 (12.2%) children in the De Aar community had foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), giving the town the highest reported rate in the world.
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The young TB patients at Cape Town’s Brooklyn Chest Hospital will be able to cosy up this winter following donations of warm clothes, toys and baby food. By Kim Cloete.
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Remember how difficult understanding sexuality and the changes in your body was when you were growing up? Well, today’s adolescents go through the same hardships and probably know no better. But help is at hand in a newly published guide that explains the changes and developments in young bodies.
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Countries most affect by the HIV pandemic are struggling to place enough people on treatment and to implement the best science and prevention strategies to fight the disease, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned.
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Medicine stock-outs, broken machinery and poor hospital administration are hindering access to cancer treatment that determines whether patients live or die in the public sector.
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The number of children infected globally with HIV has decreased by more than a quarter (26%) between 2009 and 2011, however more than 90 percent of the 3,4-million children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) will be taking legal advice against the Consumer Commissioner for recent statements she made about medical schemes.