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South African scientists are at the coalface of understanding whether HIV can be eradicated from an HIV-positive individual, essentially curing the person.
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The results of a seven-year-long study into TB in the Western Cape and Zambia shows how home visits by counsellors can dramatically reduce TB prevalence. By Kim Cloete.
The National Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has applauded Wits University for heeding his call to increase their intake of medical students in order to address the shortages of human resources in the public health sector.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Medium Term Budget Speech praises the health minister for dramatically reducing the ARV bill and commits to communicating on how he intends financing the National Health Insurance bill in his next budget. Read his full speech here.
The Foschini Group has launched an audit of all slogan t-shirts sold in its stores following objections from among others feminists, HIV activists and a Christian group which said the messages supported women abuse and unsafe sex.
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TB and HIV activists have called for a major overhaul of the bodies responsible for turning the TB epidemic tide.
OPINION: National Health Insurance (NHI). Love it or hate it. It’€™s coming. With a Green Paper released for public consultation, role players and South Africans at large for the first time have some concrete information as to how the South African healthcare landscape is going to be transformed.
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OPINION:Occupational therapist and student Yolande Riekert spent 6 weeks at the East London CHOC house for children with cancer and their mothers as part of her Masters in Medical Anthropology thesis at UCT. She shares her experiences with health-e.
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The life expectancy of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in the UK improved significantly between 1996 and 2008, research published in the British Medical Journal shows. Patients who initiated HIV therapy when their CD4 cell count was in the region of 350 cells/mm3 had an average life expectancy of approximately 75 years.
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An important paper and commentary in the journal AIDS sheds more light on the exciting possibilities of safer conception in the presence of HIV.
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A large-scale study of a malaria vaccine is showing early signs of being able to reduce the risk of malaria by more than half. Read the full GAVI statement here.
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A small study of a TB test using urine has shown the potential of simpler, point-of-care tests that are critical if there is any hope of turning the tide on TB.