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The U.N. General Assembly has declared access to safe, clean drinking water and sanitation to be a “‘human right’ in a resolution that more than 40 countries including the United States didn’t support. South Africa did support it.
Advocacy organisations in the US and Uganda have welcomed the announcement that the U.S. global AIDS program, PEPFAR, has reversed severe restrictions that capped enrollment of new HIV patients on life saving treatment in Uganda.
The Public Service Accountability Monitor has issued a statement revealing details on the dire state of the Eastern Cape health department’s finances. It also called on the department to reveal how the situation will impact on patients.
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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.