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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new recommendations on HIV treatment and prevention and for the first time recommended that HIV-positive mothers or their infants take antiretrovirals while breastfeeding to prevent HIV transmission.
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In the district worst hit by HIV/AIDS, a small organisation battles to support thousands of orphans.
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Years of digging for gold at Anglo-American mines have left Zonesele Blom with an incurable lung disease, called silicosis. His health has deteriorated to such a degree that he is no longer fit to work.
Preliminary results from a study conducted in Johannesburg show that women with HIV have a higher risk of developing cervical cancer than women who are HIV-negative.
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Diabetes patients treated at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital will benefit from advanced education and support at the hospital’s new ‘Diabetes Conversations Room’.
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Recorded deaths have increased over 90% in a decade. Nathan Geffen takes a look at the impact of HIV in South Africa.
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A speech given by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World delivered at the Commonwealth People’s Forum on the eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM.
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OPINION: Surveys have consistently shown that over 40% of Americans do not believe in evolution. It is not surprising, then, that our society is vulnerable to being fooled by people who misrepresent scientific or historical facts. By Dr. J.P. Moore, PHD.
Public-private partnerships are key to national health insurance, writes Mamphela Ramphele.
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The United States Preventive Services Task Force has revised the breast screening guidelines, recommending mammograms for women 50 to 74, every other year. It says women and their doctors should discuss the benefits and risks of mammograms beginning at age 40, but that is no longer recommended.
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Twenty-four ex-miners are seeking compensation from Anglo-American after contracting silicosis, an incurable and fatal lung disease.
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AIDS activist Nathan Geffen takes on Rian Malan over his claim that there has been ‘no massive AIDS- related death surge’.