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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.
Women in abusive relationships have a higher risk of being infected with HIV, a South African Medical Research Council study has found.
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HIV activists have accused the United States and European governments of betraying their commitments to assist poorer nations fund treatment for those needing HIV treatment.
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This month Dr Eve argues that the rights, needs of the patients need to come first, that all information must be evidence based and that all health care providers must work in an integrated multidisciplinary manner.
After a civil society group laid a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an ad campaign for Carling Black Label beer with the pay-off line, ‘Groot man of laaitie’, South African Breweries quietly decided to pull the ad campaign.
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The latest edition of The Lancet journal has an editorial calling for tobacco control in developing countries to be stepped up in an effort to impact on the cancer incidence.
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The gold mining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the TB crisis it faces at the recent South African TB Conference.
Most of the sanitation technologies provided to informal settlements in Cape Town do not meet the standards of basic sanitation. This is either due to the higher household: toilet ratios, the technology itself, the condition and location of the sanitation infrastructure, or the way in which it is serviced.
National Vice President for Global Health at the American Cancer Society, Nathan Grey answers important questions pertaining to the recent UN Resolution on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
A hearing aid company has warned that the din created by thousands of vuvuzelas could leave some Soccer World Cup fans deaf.