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South African cancer NGOs have joined forces to address shortcomings in the quality of and access to cancer care in South Africa.
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Parents are unaware of the amount of smoke their children are exposed to.
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Women have a 30% better chance of surviving the skin cancer melanoma than men, new research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology suggests.
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Women who smoke during pregnancy may increase their children’€™s risk of high-functioning autism, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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Antiretroviral therapy reduces the incidence of pre-cancerous cervical lesions in HIV-positive women, South African investigators reported in the online edition of AIDS. Their study also showed that HIV therapy was associated with a regression of pre-existing lesions.
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OPINION: Lifesaving drugs under disputed patents could become more easily available in future depending on the outcome of a case before the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
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HIV prevention groups in the United States have hailed the recommendation by an FDA Advisory Committee that emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF/FTC or Truvada) be approved for use as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among sexually active adult men and women.
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HIV activists and health workers are demanding an enquiry into continuing drug shortages, specifically a number of critical antiretrovirals that are central to government’€™s treatment programme.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) estimates that that more than U$1.6-billion in additional funding will be available over the next two years.
Two of Health-e’s journalists win awards at the Discovery health journalism awards.
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One third of all HIV infected South Africans are accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART), far exceeding the enrolment targets of the country’€™s National Strategic Plan (NSP) for 2007 to 2011.
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi delivered his budget speech this week. Read it here.