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The antiretroviral shortages in the Free State which reached crisis proportions last year when the province ran out of the critical medication are continuing, according to the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
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KENYA: (PlusNews) – Makueni District Hospital in eastern Kenya has recorded a significant drop in the weight of several of its HIV-positive patients in the past three months, which nutritionists ascribe to severe food shortages across much of the country.
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ZIMBABWE: (PlusNews) – Former model Tendayi Westerhof is better known these days as a tough-talking HIV/AIDS activist. After testing HIV positive seven years ago, she left the modelling world to found the Public Personalities Against AIDS Trust (PPAAT) to encourage other public figures and celebrities to be open about their HIV status.
MOZAMBIQUE:(PlusNews) – A narrow hallway leads to a makeshift wooden counter where a shelf displays a few empty beer cans and soft drink bottles; a side door opens to a corridor with a series of bedrooms, almost all of them occupied. This is the 25 de Setembro Social Centre, one of the largest brothels in Chimoio, capital of Mozambique’s central province of Manica.
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KENYA:(PlusNews) – Jane Nyasuguta*, 40, a former teacher living in Nyanza Province, western Kenya, thought she and her husband had a good marriage until she discovered he had a mistress in a neighbouring town. She told IRIN/PlusNews that after his death from an AIDS-related illness, and her discovery that she too was HIV-positive, she was filled with resentment.
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A new year often means a new start. Pholokgolo Ramothwala, a 30 year-old who has been living with HIV for 10 years, also wants to make new beginnings. Topping his list of things to do is the need to quit alcohol.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has turned its sights on increasing the number of ‘€˜child size’€™ medicines designed and formulated specifically for children.
Across the human lifespan, we are most vulnerable to death during birth and in the first 28 days of life. This is even more so for children born in developing nations including South Africa.
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This article busts the myth that young girls are falling pregnant to access social grants. By Marlise Richter
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A malaria vaccine candidate is proving to provide both infants and young children with significant protection against one of Africa’€™s biggest killers, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine has revealed.
NIGERIA,(PlusNews) – Ijora Badia in Lagos, Nigeria’s former capital city and the country’s economic hub is a community virtually without government services.
Many South Africans are physically inactive, consume poor and unhealthy diets and are overweight and obese ‘€“ leading to all kinds of preventable conditions that kill them prematurely.