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South Africa’s HIV/AIDS treatment programme is short of funds, yet the ANC wants to restructure the health system with a very costly National Health Insurance scheme.
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Transactional sex has become the status quo among young women at high risk of HIV, a study presented at the 4th South African AIDS Conference has confirmed.
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DURBAN – KwaZulu-Natal was making huge strides in controlling multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB and extensively-drug resistant (XDR) TB, but a staggering 50 to 60% of patients were dying while they are awaiting diagnosis which takes between four and six weeks.
As from April, children under the age of five will receive free immunisation against pneumococcal diseases, which cause infections such as pneumonia, as part of the government’€™s revised Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI).
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The cost of antiretroviral medicine was becoming unaffordable and government was considering various measures to get cheaper medicine, Deputy President Baleka Mbete told the 4th South African AIDS conference at its opening ceremony
Health issues feature prominently in all political parties’€™ election manifestos ‘€“ an indication that our sickly public health system is a great concern to voters.
In a rare debate, political parties made public their stance on a range of issues relating to the treatment of AIDS and HIV prevention. Fears emerged that the current global economic crisis will have an impact on how South Africa responds to the epidemic in the future.
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It’€™s that time of the year when a lot of us will be sniffing, coughing and even sneezing. Doctors say getting the influenza vaccine in April, will go a long way in preventing respiratory infections.
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HARGEISA:(PlusNews) – When three attempts to cure Abdulhakim*, 42, of tuberculosis failed, the father of nine living in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland in northwestern Somalia, took his doctor’s advice and tested for HIV – the result came back positive.
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KwaZulu-Natal health department orders audit after allegations of financial mismanagement.
Patients in the Free State were recently denied AIDS treatment because of a lack of funds. But the National Treasury’€™s new allocation towards the province’€™s HIV and AIDS expenditure for the 2009 ‘€“ 2010 financial year, which begins in April, is R83 million short. Now the province’€™s head of health is already talking about restricting access to antiretrovirals.