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Government needs to prioritise improving national oversight over provincial health services to address the ‘anarchy’ and ‘scope for corruption’ in provinces, according to the AIDS Law Project (ALP).
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After ten years of living with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala’s health is showing signs of decline, and he now realizes that he needs to stop taking alcohol.
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Thousands of desperate HIV positive patients in the Free State have been thrown a lifeline with news that millions has been secured to procure anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs needed to keep them alive.
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Nontskolo Tantiso had been feeling unwell for several months, but attempts to establish whether she may need antiretroviral treatment have seen her being sent from pillar to post.
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The young woman slowly slides the neatly folded papers from the envelope and gingerly places the three documents on the rickety table.
A staggering 15 000 HIV-positive people have been placed on waiting lists in the Free State where a moratorium is barring them from accessing anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs at hospitals and clinics.
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Hundreds of patients are being denied antiretroviral treatment in the Free State. During a visit to Welkom’s Bongani Hospital last week Anso Thom and Lungi Langa spoke to three young men who are staring death in the face.
Candidate microbicide PRO 2000 cuts HIV transmission by 30 percent, falling just short of the one-third required to be deemed a success. But scientists say this trial offers proof that the concept of a vaginal gel to block HIV is possible.
The quality of health care services in South Africa is declining. With that in mind, Health Minister Barbara Hogan and her deputy Dr Molefi Sefularo, are crisscrossing the country in a series of face-to-face colloquiums with health professionals to discuss the issues that bedevil the provision of care.
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In its current TV series, ‘One Love’, the non-profit health communication project, Soul City, is promoting the value of men and women being faithful to their partners and dedicating themselves to building one committed relationship.
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The Pretoria High Court has ordered the Minister of Correctional Services to furnish the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) with unedited hard and electronic copies of a report of the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons (JIOP) into the death of an Westville Prison inmate (“MM”) in August 2006.
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Every struggle has a hero and HIV and AIDS is no exception. In a bid to remove the stigma dogging the condition, high-profile people living with HIV are responding to a call to speak openly about their lives with HIV in a new initiative known as the ‘Heroes’ Campaign’.