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Cancer advocacy group urge medical aid members to review 2012 benefits now

‘€œSorry Mrs Nancy Soller your medical aid does not cover the treatment for your type of cancer’€. This was the devastating message relayed to Nancy Soller.

The NHI will not fix bad healthcare for the poor

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.

ACS joins effort to address cancer among women in developing countries

The Society Joins ABC News, United Nations Foundation’€™s ‘€˜Million Moms Challenge’€™ to Raise Awareness of Cervical Cancer Globally.

Kauai and CANSA team up this summer

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.

Test, treat ‘€“ and keep on treatment

Antiretroviral medicine can play a huge part in preventing positive people from transmitting the virus ‘€“ but only if they keep their viral loads undetectable.

Decriminalising sex work would tackle HIV

Decriminalising sex work would go a long way towards removing the hurdles sex workers face when trying to get health services, especially for HIV.

Shame on you

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.

An inevitable truth about HIV

OPINION: Reducing the number of partners and using condoms are still the most effective ways to prevent the spread of HIV. By Richard Delate.

No dignity in health for sex workers

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 ‘€œwith a good family’€ and receiving a solid education.

Let’s make war and save lives

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.

An expanded arsenal against HIV ‘€“ but money short to implement it

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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