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Deputy-President Kgalema Motlanthe and health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi will join a high-level line-up addressing the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) starting in Washington on Sunday.
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South African HIV Clinicians have welcomed an announcement that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has approved the use of an antiretroviral by sexually active HIV-negative men and women as a method of reducing the risk HIV infection in adults.
JOHANNESBURG, July, 17, 2012 ‘ The South African Nursing Council (SANC) and Africa Health Placements (AHP) recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to bring more nurses to South Africa.
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Young people are more likely to start smoking if they watch a lot of movies with cigarette-smoking characters, new research published in the journal Pediatrics suggest.
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A ‘vicious assault on people’s lifestyle choices’ by ‘Nicotine nazi’s’ ‘ that is how Leon Louw, executive director for the Free Market Foundation (FMF) described the new anti-smoking laws that will place severe restrictions on the areas where smoking are allowed.
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Researchers have found the cells at the origin of cervical cancer, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This discovery may offer new ways to prevent and treat the disease.
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The South African government should develop a plan to make healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, and whole grain cereals more available, affordable, and acceptable, and non-essential, high-calorie, nutrient-poor products, including soft drinks and some packaged foods and snacks, less available, more costly, and less appealing to the South African population.
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The health care system must gear itself for an “explosion” of cancer and other non-communicable diseases, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said during a recent visit to the iThemba Labs in Cape Town.
Private medical insurance is a luxury less than one in five (16%) South Africans can afford, and it is not getting any cheaper. Studies reveal that in 1981 a household with one working member paid about seven percent of its income to medical scheme contributions, by 1991 this portion had increased to 14 percent, rising further to 20 percent by 2001, and by 2007 stood at 30 percent.
The Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum has expressed concern over the deepening crisis in the Eastern Cape health system and has identified ways in which civil society could continue to apply pressure on the government to take decisive steps in preventing its collapse. Read the full statement here.
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People at high risk of HIV infection can reduce their risk of acquiring the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs, according to Cochrane researchers.
Is it possible to control the epidemic of HIV by using antiretroviral therapy? This pressing question is addressed in a collection of new articles published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.