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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.
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.