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Respected medical journal, the Lancet, has published a special series of articles assessing the challenges of the South African health system. HIV and Tuberculosis, plus a lack of progress in achieving the health’€“related MDGs are shown to be two of the biggest health threats in the country.
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DUBLIN ‘€“ Despite efforts to contain the use of tobacco, consumption is increasing as the world population grows, placing further strain on already overburdened health systems in developing countries.
A special series of the Lancet focusing on South Africa spells out in painful detail how many of our health indicators are the worst in the world. But while our health system is littered with lost opportunities, the Zuma government brings the possibility of real progress, argue the series authors. Kerry Cullinan reports.
Although South Africa is overwhelmed by infectious diseases, there has also been a steady increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), often as a result of changing lifestyles.
Government has added a new vaccine to fight mortality among children under five. The Rotavirus Vaccine, aimed at preventing diarrheal diseases, is the latest addition to the country’€™s Expanded Program of Immunisation (EPI).
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DUBLIN ‘€“ Africa will be hardest hit by cancer ‘€“ projected to be the biggest killer in the world by 2010 ‘€“ with a massive treatment gap leading to people dying painful and undignified deaths of cancers that are preventable, treatable and curable.
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Two more people have died of swine flu bringing the number of deaths to eight since the first confirmed case of the virus in June this year.
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is one of Uganda’s key health partners; over the past six years it has disbursed more than US$164 million in programme grants.
Public sector doctors quietly accepted the national Health Department’€™s Occupational Specific Dispensation (OSD) offer, two weeks ago.
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Despite a two-year-old law in Niger penalizing discrimination against people infected with HIV, seropositive women say they still receive substandard health care, are denied employment and risk losing their children because of their status.
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Momma’€™s Bosom, Dear Dolly and Irma on Life and Love are some of the popular print media advice columns on issues including relationships and health. But these columns fail to adequately address HIV/AIDS-related queries from readers, according to a recent analysis.
Our experience of working with the victims of xenophobia, displaced from their homes and staying in refugee camps and a church hall, was that it was an unpredictable, messy, uncoordinated and fragmented reality, with no place and no space for employing well-intended treatments and therapies. In these situations of ongoing, cumulative, and present trauma, what we could offer was the continuity of our mindful presence. So write seven Cape Town psychotherapists in a recent paper.