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Huge strides could be made towards reducing child deaths in South Africa by following the example of those who fought for the rights of people living with HIV.
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Gauteng Department of Health and Social development is urging pregnant women, patients with chronic lung and heart diseases, diabetic, school going learners under the age of 20 as well as senior citizens over 65 years to immunize against H1N1 virus by Friday, 31 July 2010.
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The Children’s Act which came into force on April 1 places the onus on doctors and other health professionals to seek consent from their young patients for certain medical conditions including HIV testing, surgery and contraception.
Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has cautioned those attending the International AIDS conference that backtracking on funding for HIV by donors could threaten the treatment success rates. Read his speech here.
Global funding for AIDS efforts fell flat during last year’s economic meltdown, ending a six-year streak of annual donation increases, according to new analysis released this week.
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In Vulindlela, the winter grass is yellow and an icy wind blows off the white-coated Drakensberg. But in the small collection of park homes that make up the local clinic and research site, there is warmth in people’s faces and voices.
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A New England Journal of Medicine study has revealed that early initiation of antiretroviral treatment could reduce death rates and the Tuberculosis incidence.
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In one of the biggest advances in HIV prevention in decades, a vaginal gel containing an antiretroviral drug has been proven to protect almost four out of 10 women from HIV.
Hospital CEOs will be held accountable for failing systems at their institutions, KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo told the heads of the seven major hospitals in eThekwini on Friday.
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AVAC Report warns promising developments in biomedical HIV prevention could be undermined by current conditions of the global AIDS response.
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Josephine stepped up to the podium, looked out at the 100 women and a few men, and began her introduction with these words:’I am just an ordinary woman. And I survived cancer.’
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HIV doctors and activists have slammed a male circumcision clamp that is being aggressively marketed in South Africa and the rest of the continent with a small study showing that it is much more painful that the surgical route and has more adverse events.