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Newly graduated doctors who trained in Cuba have set their sights on improving South Africa’€™s public health system.
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Ubhejane is not registered with the Medicines Control Council despite such claims in recent newspaper reports.
The Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) and the South African Department of Defence have signed an agreement that will see members of the defence force receiving better palliative care.
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SECTION27 has called for transparency and fairness in this year’€™s Antiretroviral (ARV) tendering process as invitations for bidders are soon to be announced.
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The Department of Health has stated that Ubhejane is not registered as a medicine. The MCC has not yet publicly responded to the article.
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As football fans from around the world arrive in South Africa to cheer on their favourite team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we must not lose sight of one unwelcome guest’€”HIV. By Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director
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OPINION: “I’ve written this article to argue that FIFA, as the world’s football authority, has an ethical responsibility for social action, in fact, it owes the soccer-playing world – effectively all of humanity – a massive sustainable and measurably successful longitudinal social project starting from THIS World Cup, a moral imperative on which millions of lives will hang in the balance. By Richard Witzig
President Jacob Zuma has declared that African leaders aimed to deliver on their commitments to allocate 15% of their budgets to health care and to allocate an amount for maternal, newborn and child health care.
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A statement by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World released at a press conference in Toronto, June 22, 2010.
KwaZulu-Natal’€™s health department is using a plastic device in its mass male circumcision drive that speeds up the procedure but has significant side-effects in adult men.
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The average school kid tends roll their eyes when HIV is mentioned, yet thousands of pupils in Edendale have been learning valuable life skills while learning to play soccer.
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Dr Mitch Besser, founder and medical director of the Cape Town based programme, mothers2mothers, (m2m) has received the 2010 Award for Best Practices in Global Health for initiatives to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV and provide care to women living with HIV.