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Fewer people living with psychiatric illnesses are being confined behind the high walls of psychiatric institutions as the Mental Health Act of 2002 has moved the emphasis from institutionalisation to community-based rehabilitation and care. Lungi Langa of Health-e News Service spent a morning at a residential community centre in Cape Town.
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Daniel wants to grow up to be a policeman so that he can arrest his parents. He says they drink too much and they won’€™t let him leave the children’€™s home to come live with them again.
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Tehillah Spread Your Wings Rehabilitation has been tackling substance abuse in the Elsies River since 2003. Lungi Langa spent a day at the facility and spoke to staff about why they opted to register with Government as a rehabilitation facility.
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Children’€™s rights organisations and other civil society groups have urged the Health Department to stop its plans to go to schools to test learners for HIV.
The African National Congress has released more detail on the much anticipated National Health Insurance scheme. According to a press release the plan will kick off in the rural areas and will be staggered over three phases starting in 2012. The press release read by the ANC’s health committee chair Zweli Mkhize is available here.
Leaders need more creative plans to increase funding to reduce child malnutrition and AIDS, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
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A Cape Town family share their distressing journey of trying to find help for their heroin addicted daughter. Lungi Langa spoke to them.
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Recent preliminary results of the microbicide gel, Tenofovir, which showed that it can protect women from HIV infection by about 39%, have sparked concern that people might be less cautious about the use of condoms. Communities say condoms are already being used sparingly.
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The rooms all look relatively similar: A single bed, a rug, a nightstand and a few personal touches like flowers or framed pictures.
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Over 50-million people will be infected with TB between now and 2015 in the absence of funding and political commitment, the Stop TB partnership has warned.
Amnesty International has accused governments failing to make a concerted effort to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of abusing the human rights of the poorest in society.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has urged governments and donors to pour money for HIV services into the Global Fund or risk a global emergency for AIDS funding. This comes on the eve of the third Voluntary Replenishment Conference which will be hosted by the Global Fund next month. Click here to view page.