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Dr Jorge Sampaio, the United Nations Special Envoy on Tuberculosis recently addressed the 59th World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. He reminded ministers that putting money in TB is one of the most cost effective public health investments.
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – AIDS activists have praised a decision by the Indian patent office to reject patent applications for two life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, allowing Indian manufacturers to keep on making and exporting generic versions.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – An attempt to help educators around the world develop sex-education programmes as a way to reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young people has become bogged down in controversy.
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – Shortages of medical staff in Uganda mean clinical officers, nurses and midwives are prescribing life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy (ART) without proper training, a new studyreveals.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi declared war on maternal and child deaths at a summit held recently in Johannesburg.
The ANC has been meeting behind closed doors to shape a new health system for the country. While stakeholders and the public have debated the possible shape of a National Health Insurance scheme discussion among the ANC’s task team has been behind closed doors. Health-e was recently leaked the 68-page policy proposal sent by the ANC’s NHI task team to the party’s Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe.
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House screening can reduce the amount of mosquitoes and prevent malaria related anaemia in children, a Lancet study has shown.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – A new book has broken the silence over what really goes on during traditional male circumcisions in South Africa, and the author, a former initiate, says that if is to be made safer and punted to prevent HIV, circumcision as many know it will have to change.
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – The people of sub-Saharan Africa, already bearing the brunt of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, are also likely to be worst hit by the effects of climate change, but until now AIDS and climate change experts and activists have largely remained in separate camps.
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HYDERABAD: (PlusNews) – Cricket is more than just a game in Pakistan; it’s an obsession. So when a team of HIV-positive players stepped onto the wicket recently for their first match, the stakes were even higher.
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LUSAKA: (PlusNews) – The HIV/AIDS epidemic may have contributed to the high incidence of cervical cancer in Zambia, where the number of cases is the second highest in sub-Saharan Africa, and HIV prevalence is one of the highest in the world.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – The debate about the safest and healthiest infant feeding choice for HIV-positive mothers in the developing world should be over, according to one of South Africa’s leading HIV/AIDS researchers.