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In this month’€™s diary, Pholokgolo Ramothwala writes that poor health and stress have slammed the brakes on his plans to make new beginnings.
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A study conducted in the United States shows that high doses of Vitamin D supplementation could reduce the skin cancer risk in older, post-menopausal women by almost 80 percent. However, a local cancer expert has warned that the study published the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition could only be significant locally if a similar study was conducted in South Africa
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With February being the month when love is in the air, we spent some time with a discordant couple, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other is not, to find out the importance of couples testing together.
At the first ever African Sex Workers’€™ Conference held in Johannesburg recently, sex workers called on governments to recognise their needs in their plans to respond to the AIDS epidemic.
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While fish body oil and a gel made from red chillies, got the thumbs up, the vast majority of complementary medicines for arthritis failed to prove efficacy.
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At least 30 HIV positive people have died in the Free State every day following a moratorium the province placed on initiating any new patients on anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, according to conservative figures from the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society.
A threat of more infectious diseases, a drug-resistant AIDS epidemic and malnutrition could add to Zimbabwe’€™s current cholera woes, says humanitarian medical aid agency, Doctors Without Borders.
Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis continues to rapidly deteriorate, causing appalling suffering, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warn in a report released this week. The organisation’€™s medical teams have now treated almost 45,000 people, an estimated 75% of the total number of cases in the current cholera outbreak – and the crisis is far from over.
Pia Engebrigtsen worked for 2 months as a nurse in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province during the country’s cholera outbreak, in which MSF has so far treated more than 45,000 people. Here she shares her story of death, heartbreak, survival and saving lives against all odds.
Most hospital and clinics in the Free State have still not started treating the more than 15 000 people waiting for their anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, however the national health department has given the assurance that drugs will now start arriving at all 28 sites.
A five part series that was aired on Morning Live in the run up to World AIDS Day explores the lives of ordinary people who deal with a life that seems to get more complicated every day. EVERYDAY HEROES. How do they make ends meet and make healthy choices? How have they managed to keep their families together and healthy? What lessons have they learned in the process? What can we learn from them?
Would you believe that world-wide, 2 in 5 people don’t have access to safe sanitation!? Today in our series on EVERYDAY HEROES ‘€“ people who make a difference in their part of the world ‘€“ we visit a doctor and a nursery school principal who are playing their part to promote good hygiene.