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A crucial meeting between the nursing profession and the Health Department ended on a high note in Johannesburg, this week. The meeting sought to address deficiencies of a profession that is despised by many South Africans who receive nursing care in government health facilities.
SANDTON – Nurses should invoke the spirits of their noble predecessors Florence Nightingale, Cecilia Makiwane and Henrietta Stockdale and restore the profession to its rightful place in society, President Jacob Zuma told a Nursing Summit.
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Dis-Chem this week responded to criticism after their involvement in the tour to South Africa of vitamin salesman and author Patrick Holford.
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In a profession often marred by disillusionment, poor resources and negative publicity, some nurses still manage to uphold their ethics and even risk their lives by working in highly infectious environments.
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The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society and the Treatment Action Campaign have demanded that Dis-Chem explain its decision to host vitamin salesman Patrick Holford.
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The health department has bought 30 multi-million rand machines that can diagnose drug-resistant tuberculosis within two hours rather than the usual four weeks.
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TB can hold serious physical and psychological consequences for those who are infected, and for children the diagnosis is often even bleaker. Dipuo Sedibe of Health-e News Service spent a day with a group of youngsters and their carers at Brooklyn Chest Hospital in Cape Town.
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South Africa is moving towards decentralising the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) care to primary care level, but will continue to hospitalise those patients who are ill or infectious.
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BCG vaccine, the only currently available vaccine against TB and despite its limitations, is still one of the most important weapons in the arsenal against TB in young children.
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South Africa is paying exorbitantly high prices for drugs to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis, a new report by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has revealed.
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Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB has now spread to most parts of KwaZulu-Natal after being confined mostly to the Tugela Ferry area.
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Countries with high numbers of people living with HIV, especially where access to antiretroviral treatment is patchy, are sitting on a drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) time bomb, which may have in some instances already exploded.