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I started smoking when I was 17 years old. I will never forget that first drag- the headrush, the thrill and the smell and taste. It is now 8 years later and am still in an on/off relationship with cigarettes.
Health-e is very proud of our Vodacom winners. TV reporter Fathima Simjee won the best TV news category in the highly competitive southern and northern region for “Positive Heroes”, about HIV positive people who ran the Comrades Marathon.
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While anti-tobacco legislation and campaigns have increased globally, there is still much that needs to be done to stop the six million people from dying due to smoking cigarettes or second-hand smoke every year.
This podcast by Planet Money reveals a cost analysis commissioned by the Czech Republic government who were concerned about their economic depression. Smoking was admitted to be less costly for governments and Philip Morris admitted that death saves money
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World Health Organisation (WHO) released the second edition of the smoke-free movies report. It underlines the fact that, in some countries, many of the youth-rated films that contain tobacco imagery are the recipients of significant government production subsidies.
The deadline for comments on the health department’s Green Paper on National Health Insurance has been extended to the end of the year.
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Breast cancer is most common in women, but growing evidence shows that men are also at risk of developing this type of cancer. About 1% of South Africans diagnosed with breast cancer are men. Johan Basson of Johannesburg is part of this small, yet significant cohort.
PITTSBURGH, September 28, 2011 ‘ VOICE, an HIV prevention trial evaluating two antiretroviral (ARV)-based approaches for preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in women ‘ daily use of one of two different ARV tablets or of a vaginal gel ‘ will be dropping one of the oral tablets from the study. Read statement here.
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The announcement today that one arm of a large-scale HIV prevention trial known as VOICE will stop early is disappointing, but must be seen in context, according to the global advocacy organization AVAC.
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A large-scale clinical trial evaluating whether daily use of an oral tenofovir or vaginal gel containing antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection in women is being modified because an interim review found that the study cannot show that the oral tenofovir is effective. Read the full statement here.
The story of Nozipho Mgoma, a brave single mother, and her battle against breast cancer.
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OPINION: Buried in the chapter on ‘Institutions and Governance’ of the National Planning Commission’s Diagnostic report is a short statement about the ‘important role’ played by civil society in South Africa.