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Most South Africans are not aware that they can donate organs to save the lives of others. Many are simply not willing to. This leaves those needing organ transplants at risk of desperate illness or loss of life.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – A UN assessment has revealed that flooding in northern Namibia during March severely disrupted HIV and AIDS treatment, care and prevention services.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – A new maternal mortality study names HIV and AIDS as the cause of one in four maternal deaths in Zimbabwe.
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – The quality of health care, including access to HIV prevention and testing services, depends to a large extent on which of South Africa’s 52 districts you happen to live in.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – When it comes to incorporating gender-related policies and interventions into their HIV/AIDS programmes, three of the largest global AIDS donors talk the talk, but have largely failed to walk the walk.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – Risky sexual behaviour has a language of its own on the University of Zimbabwe’s (UZ) campus in the capital, Harare.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – AIDS activists have reported that public health facilities in South Africa’s Free State Province are experiencing serious shortages of condoms, with some clinics reporting complete stockouts.
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South Africa’€™s youth have given the animated Scrutinize HIV prevention campaign the thumbs up.
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South Africa’€™s flagship prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programme is not being monitored properly, indicative of management neglect of the plan from national to facility level.
The two most deprived districts in the country are Umzinyathi and Umkhanyekude in KwaZulu-Natal, according to the District Health Barometer (DHB) which was released last night (Monday 6 July).
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Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)has called for a single African Drug Agency to ensure the sustainability and availability of quality lifesaving drugs so desperately needed on the continent. Sidebe directed his call at a leaders meeting at the African Union summit in Libya.
Two-thirds of SA nurses surveyed want to leave the profession within five years, according to research released at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) congress.