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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.
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An amendment to the Health Act allowing counselors to draw blood for HIV testing using a finger prick device will see more people being tested.
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Seven out of 10 South Africans with TB also have HIV, yet they have to get their TB and HIV treatment in different clinics.
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This year’s AVAC Report is the first to be published in the context of clinical trial evidence that an AIDS vaccine is possible. Turning the Page reviews the broader state of’and debates around’AIDS vaccines and other HIV prevention research.
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One of South Africa’s most eminent HIV scientists has been accused of causing ‘preventable deaths’ during a clinical trial he conducted on people co-infected with HIV and TB.
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Free State health activists will march in Bloemfontein today calling the provincial government reach the National Strategic Plan targets.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) this week released GLOBOCAN 2008, a new database which provides the most accurate assessment of the global cancer burden. It shows that Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.