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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.
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SHENZHEN – The single biggest impact on cancer can be made by reducing tobacco use, a leading expert has told delegates at the World Cancer Congress.
There is chaos and widespread intimidation in KwaZulu-Natal hospitals as working nurses and doctors are coerced to join the strike by public servants.
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SHENZHEN ‘ At least five billion people live in countries with limited or no access to controlled pain medication with the vast majority having inadequate access to the most basic treatment for moderate to severe pain.
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SHENZHEN ‘ Over 3 000 international cancer experts are currently meeting in China to renew their fight against a disease which is killing millions every year and to renew their efforts to control tobacco.
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Landmark report shows that cancer has the greatest economic impact from premature death and disability of all causes of death worldwide.
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SHENZHEN ‘ The drive to prevent, treat and control cancer is facing a major turning point with the disease set to be given higher global priority.
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Intensifying their search for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection, scientists are planning to run an improved version of the successful Thai HIV vaccine trial in South Africa next year.
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Surgeons at Red Cross have given a group of children with facial anomalies a reason to smile.
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In his column published in the Sowetan on 27 July 2010 (‘Research on HIV prevention gel put black lives at risk’), Andile Mngxitama viciously attacks South African researchers who recently announced a huge breakthrough in the development of a microbicide, a gel that they hope women will be able to use to reduce their risk of being infected with HIV from sex.