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The deans of several university health science faculties have been ordered to return to the drawing board and prepare for their presentation to parliament’€™s health portfolio committee.
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Analysis of five years of antiretroviral treatment in the state sector has found that the number of South African patients who were lost to follow-up or could not be traced has rapidly increased from 1% in 2002 to 24% in 2007.
The Lancet has published a new blueprint for international development, a week ahead of the UN’€™s major summit about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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A South African study has found that antiretroviral therapy which includes a cheaper nevirapine-based regimen was as beneficial to the long-term health outcomes of HIV-positive infants’€™ as the more expensive Protease Inhibitor (PI)-based regimens currently prescribed.
Huge weaknesses in provincial health departments are behind the R7.5-billion debt that has been accumulated, mainly by Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
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Almost a million South Africans are already on lifelong antiretroviral treatment and this number is supposed to triple in the next decade if government keeps to its implementation plan.
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At the fourth annual Stop Cervical Cancer in Africa meeting, we the First Ladies of Ghana, Niger, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and The Gambia present in Accra commit ourselves as champions of one of the most critical health issues of our time’€”the growing burden of women’€™s cancers, especially cervical and breast cancer’€”in the world’€™s poorest nations.
OPINION: Florence Nightingale, the woman widely credited with introducing professional nursing standards, died 100 years ago this month.
Services at Mowbray Maternity Hospital’€™s outpatients department were largely suspended and most patients were told to return at a later date after workers failed to pitch for work yesterday.
A row of tiny babies, many premature and weighing less than a kilogramme, lie under blue ultraviolet lights. Feeding tubes snake into their little noses while others are fed intravenously.
For the last decade, everyone living and working with AIDS has been preoccupied with securing access to life-saving drugs. Now that just under a million South Africans are on ARVs, there’€™s a new frontier in the fight against the virus: Safeguarding the human rights of people living with HIV.
Government resorts to court to prevent intimidation of healthworkers as patients are abandoned in hospitals.