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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.
The death of a child’s mother massively reduces the child’s chances of survival to age 10 years, whereas the father’s death has a negligible effect, a study on child survival in Bangladesh has found.
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Despite government promises, there are no guidelines on how TB and HIV services can be integrated – and this delay is killing patients
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The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has launched the CANSA e-kick Butt programme which aims to see nicotine addicts giving up the habit.
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The world renowned Scottish singer songwriter and women’s activist Annie Lennox has been named as International Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Health and human rights groups have warned that discrimination and homophobic legislation hampers the success of health initiatives.
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‘Antiretroviral microbicides for prevention ‘ such promise needs urgent research. How can I stand idly by and not take up this challenge?’ asks Professor Salim ‘Slim’ Abdool Karim. He is heading a trial that is testing the effectiveness of a tenofovir-based microbicide. Lungi Langa spoke to Karim at the recent Microbicide conference in Pittsburgh.
Former UNAIDS chief Peter Piot has been appointed Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a research-led postgraduate centre of excellence in public health, international health and tropical medicine.
South Africa’s beleaguered Medicines Control Council (MCC) is slowly starting to make inroads into its massive backlog, however it will take a long time to repair the damage done by years of political meddling and incompetence.
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New rapid tests at four decentralised sites is likely to bring in many more patients for the province