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While South Africa has made some progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), mental health and poverty remain major challenges, according to public hearings on the MDGs hosted by the SA Human Rights Commission.
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Up until March this year, there were 1 234 people in need of a kidney transplant in the Johannesburg region alone. So far, only 20 people have received kidney transplants. South Africans are being called upon to become organ donors.
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While South Africans are aware that using condoms can prevent HIV infection, the majority do not understand that having more than one sexual partner increases the risk of infection.
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About 3 500 patients are currently on the waiting list for kidney transplants. At Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital alone, 160 patients are awaiting a transplant. But not all of them will be lucky enough to receive a kidney.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has heard that mental health is an overlooked priority. This was said at the Commission’€™s recent public hearings focusing on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the realisation of economic and social rights in South Africa.
In a desperate attempt to stem growing strike action among public sector doctors, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi yesterday (Wednesday) made public the offer government would be taking to the bargaining chamber.
International medical and humanitarian aid organisation Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has released a report detailing the extent to which illegal Zimbabwean immigrants, are denied the right to access health care in South Africa.
There is a crisis of trust in our health care system. Every day yet another group laments their lack of trust in ‘€˜the system’€™, be they patients, doctors, nurses, wage negotiators or commentators. By Lucy Gilson.
Hundreds of “angry and frustrated” doctors, pharmacists and emergency workers heeded the strike call in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille enters the National Health Insurance debate in her weekly newsletter South Africa Today. She argues that NHI would deepen the failure of public health and reduce the benefits of private health.
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Pharmaceutical giant Tibotec and the non-profit Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) have teamed up to expedite the development of TMC207, which could become the first TB drug with a new mechanism of action in 40 years.
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JOHANNESBURG:(PlusNews) – For the first time in nearly half a century, the world may be on the verge of adding a new drug to its arsenal against tuberculosis (TB) ‘€“ one that would not only drastically improve the treatment of TB and its multidrug-resistant strains, but also shorten it.