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Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi delivered his budget speech this week. Read it here.
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Smokers will be prohibited from smoking on beaches, in outdoor eating areas or at sports or other public events if a proposed amendment to the Tobacco Control Products Act is approved.
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Obese children are at an increased risk for developing liver cancer as adults, according to a new study presented at the International Liver Congress in Barcelona.
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Activists have sent another letter to Cepheid, the manufacturer of the revolutionary GeneXpert multi-drug resistant TB diagnostic machine, urging them to bring down the price of their products so that more people can access this lifesaving test.
New international HIV testing guidelines are encouraging couples to test together and for immediate initiation on antiretrovirals for the one testing positive.
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Many smokers are unaware that tobacco use and second-hand smoke can cause heart disease, according to a new report released at the World Heart Federation World Congress of Cardiology in Dubai.
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Don’t smoke, eat healthy food, and do regular exercise ‘ most people know that these lifestyle choices lower your risk for cancer. But many people still don’t make these choices.
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Indoor tanning beds and sunburn during childhood may be to blame for the rise in skin cancer among young people, according to a new study.
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More than half of all urinary tract cancers in Taiwan ‘ where use of traditional medicine is widespread ‘ are believed to be linked to a toxic ingredient in a popular herbal remedy.
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Researchers, comparing the risks of menthol cigarettes to that of regular cigarettes, found that the stroke risk for smokers of menthol cigarettes was more than twice that of people smoking regular cigarettes. And for women, and non-black participants, the risk was more than three times higher.
Health GAP (Global Access Project) welcomed the appointment of Dr Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank. Dr Kim is a transformative figure in global health who lead the ‘3-by-5’ initiative to scale up access to AIDS treatment in Africa at a time when so-called experts in development’including the World Bank’argued it was neither feasible nor ‘cost effective’ to do so.
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Rising drug resistance has turned what public health officials call today’s Big Three infections ‘ HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria ‘ even more fearsome. Together, these diseases kill millions every year, representing 10 percent of all deaths globally. Worse, the trio of epidemics is tragically interconnected, with TB, for example, the leading cause of death among individuals infected with HIV.