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Over the last few months, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has been studying the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal and have also held a series of workshops with key stakeholders from government, civil society and the healthcare industry. Read their position paper on an alternative to NHI here.
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The Society Joins ABC News, United Nations Foundation’s ‘Million Moms Challenge’ to Raise Awareness of Cervical Cancer Globally.
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Leading national healthy fast food company, KAUAI, has teamed up with the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) in a bid to make more South Africans be good to their skin this summer.
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Antiretroviral medicine can play a huge part in preventing positive people from transmitting the virus ‘ but only if they keep their viral loads undetectable.
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Decriminalising sex work would go a long way towards removing the hurdles sex workers face when trying to get health services, especially for HIV.
OPINION: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been the international financial armada in the battle against the three diseases. The collapse of the next round of Global Fund grants, known as Round 11, is the most serious, catastrophic setback in the Fund’s decade of existence. By Stephen Lewis.
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OPINION: Reducing the number of partners and using condoms are still the most effective ways to prevent the spread of HIV. By Richard Delate.
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Moriscia Cloete (37) bucks the trend. Many sex workers share stories of broken, unhappy, abusive homes and childhoods, but the tall woman with the easy smile recalls growing up ‘with a good family’ and receiving a solid education.
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EDITORIAL: Two years ago in Cape Town, Dr Reuben Granich of the World Health Organisation presented a scenario at a high-level AIDS science meeting. It was viewed as controversial at the time, but for the first time we could truly dream of ending the devastation of HIV.
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For the first time, the global AIDS community is talking about stopping the AIDS within a couple of decades ‘ and it seems possible.
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‘I am a woman trapped in a man’s body. People ask me whether I am a woman and I answer, no. I have no feelings to women, I prefer relationships with men.’
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South Africa continues to have high HIV infection rates among the 15 to 24 year old pregnant women and increasingly so among the 10 to 14 year olds, the latest Government antenatal survey has revealed.