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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.
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Basic information about swine flu in question and answer format.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the full impact of the swine flu outbreak in Africa has yet to be seen. The agency said this at a regional conference on the pandemic, earlier this week in Johannesburg.
Can you imagine being kicked out of your home or losing your job just because you have HIV? Many people have experienced such abuse because society doesn’€™t know much about HIV. Victims of abuse also don’€™t know that they have rights. But with the re-launch of the AIDS Charter, that’€™s about to change.
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Swine flu has claimed another life in the Western Cape bringing the number of fatalities in the province to two.
Port Elizabeth’€™s beleaguered Dora Nginza hospital is again facing lawsuits and recently settled out of court after a baby was brain damaged-after alleged negligent treatment in the Eastern Cape hospital’€™s maternity section.
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The outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1) that started in Mexico and the United States of America has spread to many other countries resulting in high morbidity and some mortality.
Panic over the outbreak of Swine flu in the country has seen levels of absenteeism rise in the workplace. This is according to Kaelo Consulting, a company specialising in wellness and occupational health.
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MAPUTO: (PlusNews) – Thousands of people took to the streets of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, and the country’s second city, Beira this week, to protest the government’s closure of day care hospitals for HIV-positive patients.
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MAPUTO: (PlusNews) – Less than 7 percent of HIV-positive children in Mozambique are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, according to a new study.