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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’.
OPINION: Dr Jonathan Broomberg shares his views on the debate around the ANC’s plans to introduce NHI. Broomberg is the Head of Strategy and Risk Management at Discovery Health
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – When Nora Adhiambo, 21, started working as a housekeeper for a family in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she expected to cook, clean and look after their young children; not that she would have to regularly have sex with her employer.
NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – Providing HIV prevention, care and treatment services at well-equipped local clinics could be the key to success in fighting the pandemic in the developing world, a new report by the international anti-poverty NGO, ActionAid, has said.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – In at least five African countries, scarce resources are being spent on national HIV prevention campaigns that do not reach the people most at risk of infection, new research has found.
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JOHANNESBURG: (IRIN) – Proposals to decriminalize sex work in South Africa have been moved back to the front burner after the newly installed premier of the country’s richest province, Gauteng, remarked that the issue should be addressed “objectively and with an open mind”. A review of the current legislation is underway.
Health-e will for the next few weeks publish opinion pieces from various stakeholders and experts on National Health Insurance. Anso Thom sets the scene with the first contribution with Dr Jonathan Broomberg, Discovery Health’s head of strategy and risk management.