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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.
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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.