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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – Findings from a clinical trial in Haiti bring the first conclusive evidence that HIV-positive people in developing countries have a significantly better chance of survival if they start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment earlier.
CAPE TOWN ‘ African health and human rights activists have called on leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting on Africa to ‘not use the same pie and split it between more people’, but to make the pie bigger.
CAPE TOWN – Diabetes, respiratory diseases, some cancers and cardiovascular disease, the cause of over 50% of the disease burden in the world, can be decreased substantially by focusing on nutrition, encouraging physical activity and curbing smoking, Dr Craig Nossel of Discovery Health told a debate at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa.
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Last week we heard how Tender Mavundla, a musician who showed her mettle in Idols 2007, is on a mission to warn the youth about HIV. This week, Tender answers some questions about her own life with HIV.
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While South Africa’s HIV prevalence rate remains stable at 11 percent, there have been significant reductions in HIV among children and young people.
Fifteen years of failing to address the systemic challenges facing the health of the country lends itself to over compensation in the form of the grand gesture. By Alex van den Heever
I am a health economist visiting South Africa from Australia. With respect to South African society, as a foreigner the thing that strikes me more than anything is the continuing poverty amidst such incredible affluence. By Gavin Mooney
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Strains of Influenza have baffled researchers ever since the first human flu virus was isolated for research purposes in the 1930’s. We spoke to an expert to try and explain the behaviour of the virus that causes Influenza.
Young people are the most vulnerable to HIV infection. Musician, Tender Mavundla, who is due to release her first CD, is trying to warn youth not to do what she once did.
The World Health Organisation has called for governments to require all tobacco packets to have pictures showing the dangers of tobacco use.
Doctors marched to the head office of the Health Department in Pretoria last week and handed a memorandum to Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. They have given government until June 19 to address their frustrations regarding poor pay and working conditions.
Swazi Member of Parliament and gospel singer, Pastor Timothy Myeni, has blamed the devil for suggesting at an MPs’ workshop, that there should be a law making it ‘compulsory to test for HIV’ and that people testing positive should be ‘branded on the buttocks’.