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Doctors are deeply divided on how to confront Government on their dissatisfaction regarding the Occupational Specific Dispensation (OSD), which aims among others, to improve their pay.
Research suggests that the practice of people having more than one sexual partner is a major driver in spreading the HIV epidemic. We spoke to one man who is constantly seeking satisfaction from outside his marriage.
The sexual dissatisfaction of married men has led to some of them having extra marital affairs. This kind of practice is known to be a major contributor in the rising number of HIV infections.
The inability of the government to offer doctors proper salaries in the Occupational Specific Dispensation that is currently debated, could lead to the collapse of the health system nationally, as doctors threaten to embark on a strike.
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Between 5% – 15% of the South African population has ever tested for HIV. This is despite the fact that testing services are widely available in the public health sector. A recent pilot study in KwaZulu-Natal has shown that South Africans would rather test themselves than go to a clinic.
Health activists are mobilizing against the appointment of former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as mentor and African Union Goodwill Ambassador on maternal, infant and child health.
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – A disappointing allocation for global AIDS programmes in the United States budgetmeans African governments will have to step up their own funding, say activists.
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GARISSA: (PlusNews) – In 2002, one bus per day connected Garissa, in Kenya’s North-Eastern Province, with the capital, Nairobi, and not a single case of HIV had been reported in the region.
Introducing himself to the media last week, new Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, acknowledged that public sector health professionals, including doctors, are under-paid.
DAR ES SALAAM: (PlusNews) – Bars and nightclubs in several Tanzanian cities will soon have condom vending machines in the bathrooms as part of national efforts to combat HIV.
MAGAGADE: (PlusNews) – Not much information about HIV and AIDS has reached people in the remote village of Magagade, in the Caia district of central Mozambique’s Sofala Province. There is no electricity or piped water and the roads are so bad that Manuel Colaço, 22, had to travel there by bicycle to teach residents about how the disease is transmitted and treated.
The national health department and the Medicines Control Council (MCC) have failed to respond to a warning from South Africa’€™s top pharmacology academics and experts that the South African market is being flooded with all kinds of quack remedies and dubious ‘€˜medicines’€™.