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The world is watching the stand-off between the Australian government and big tobacco over plain packaging with great interest. Late last year the Australian government passed a new law that will remove all branding from tobacco-product packaging, but big tobacco don’€™t want to budge and is now taking the Australian government to court over the new law.
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In her latest report, the US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, raised serious concerns over the influence that tobacco companies’€™ advertising campaigns may have on young people.
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Former president and Nobel laureate FW de Klerk, had a close brush with cancer in 2006 and is lending his support to Be Cancer Aware as they launch a campaign to increase public awareness of colorectal cancer.
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In 2010, the tobacco industry made US$6 000 in profit for each death caused by the products they sell. This is according to The Tobacco Atlas, Fourth Edition, and its companion website TobaccoAtlas.org, which were recently unveiled by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health.
A few weeks ago, on 8 March, the world celebrated International Women’€™s Day, which serves as a clarion call to honor girls’€™ and women’€™s contributions to their families, communities and nations. As our global population swells to over 7 billion, we must heed this call by working to ensure that every girl and woman lives a long, healthy and happy life. By Dr. Jotham Musinguzi.
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Musa Ernest Nkoko is a 52-year old ex-miner with multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis. He lives in KaShoba in the Lubombo region of Swaziland with his wife and five children aged between 9 and 27 years. Co-infected with HIV, Nkoko says he has been on treatment for MDR-TB for the last four years. The disease has diminished Nkoko’€™s lung capacity and rendered him too weak to do any work, and he and his family relies on his wife’€™s income as a part time cleaner.
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HIV activists and senior doctors have called for an urgent investigation into the continued rollout of a controversial male circumcision device in KwaZulu-Natal.
Thousands more people from disadvantaged backgrounds will benefit from the second Phelophepa train, which reaches into communities where health care is hard to access.
Last week a new analysis of adult mortality rates in African countries was released. The study authors found that between 2004 and 2008, in those nations where the President’€™s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was most active, the odds of death were about 20 percent lower than in other countries in the region. By Chris Collins.
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Cancer patients were turned away today at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg as a radiation machine had not been repaired due to a non-payment dispute with Siemens.
The ANC policy proposals have been released. Read it here.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women around the world die during childbirth because they lack access to the medical assistance they need. On International Women’€™s Day, March 8, MSF is releasing a report, Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis, that details the profound, life-saving impact quality emergency obstetric care can have for pregnant women who are trying to endure acute and chronic humanitarian crises. Read the report here.