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Somewhere around 1 November 2008 the death penalty was reintroduced in the Free State. Quietly, with the stroke of a pen, an official in the Department of Health in Bloemfontein signed a memorandum introducing a moratorium declaring that no new patients should be put on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment. This was to be for the next five months ‘€“ until the new financial year, April 1 2009 — when the funds would return.
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SA NGOs condemn statements made by former health minister at UN session of the Commission on the Status of Women looking at caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS
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JOHANNESBURG:(PlusNews) – 2009 might just be the year that HIV prevention finally takes centre stage in South Africa. Years of workshops and speeches in which AIDS experts and politicians talked about the need to prioritise prevention are, at last, translating into action.
MOMBASA:(PlusNews) – A shortage of free female condoms in public hospitals in Kenya’s Coast Province is compromising the ability of women to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
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The latest edition of the HIV Treatment Bulletin contains a report on two studies calculating the excess number of AIDS deaths in South Africa resulting from a delay in governmental roll-out of highly active ARV treatment (HAART) and in preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report on the feasibility of a groundbreaking nurse-driven HIV and TB care and treatment programme following a three year stint in Lesotho.
Thousands of Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa have been displaced after an order by the Department of Home of Affairs for them to vacate a field in Musina where they have been living for several months.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) issued an urgent press release this week stating that the Dutch section of the organisation has been expelled from Darfur.
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Does having more than one sexual partner form part of tradition? What role does the practice play in the transmission of HIV?
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Going to the dentist is not a pleasurable experience for some. It’€™s even worse for those who are experiencing severe pain from HIV-related oral infections. We take a look at how one’€™s good oral health can deteriorate due to HIV infection.
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The Bulletin of the World Health Organisation has published an article drawing attention to the little-explored reality of increasing numbers of people over the age of 50 infected with HIV.
NAIROBI:(PlusNews) – Exactly one year ago, Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and his erstwhile rival for the presidency, Raila Odinga, signed an agreement that created a government of national unity, ending two months of election-related violence during which more than 1,000 people were killed. The effects of that violence are still being felt.