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MOZAMBIQUE -(PlusNews) – When Mariana Uchandidhora’s husband was killed in a traffic accident in South Africa a year ago, tradition required that she have sex with her deceased husband’s brother in order to be purified.
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ZIMBABWE,(PlusNews)- Memory Motsi* rents a room in Chitungwiza, about 20km from the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. She wakes up at five in the morning to get to work on time at the school where she teaches Grade 5 in Hatfield, a suburb in the city, because the poor salaries in education sector, totally outpaced by hyperinflation, mean she can no longer afford the bus fare to and from work.
The KwaZulu-Natal health department has ordered the withdrawal of two Nestle formula feed products following concerns over melamine contamination. However, Nestle has said their products are absolutely safe for consumption.
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KENYA – (PlusNews) – HIV-positive prisoners in Kenya not only suffer isolation from friends and family, but also within the prison walls.
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‘Bring me people sick with AIDS who can’t walk’, urges the poster stuck onto Durban bus shelters, with a cellphone number attached. The number leads to a man who called himself ‘Dr Mama Grace’ who operates from a small building on Grey Street in downtown Durban.
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Ceragem is a Korean massage bed registered by the American Food and Drug Administration in the US for the treatment of minor aches and pains in arthritis ‘ but in South Africa it is being touted as an AIDS cure.
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The former minister of health in Cameroon claims he has developed an AIDS ‘vaccine’ that has ‘cured’ 23 people of the disease, but when asked to produce those he had cured he could not.
South Africa has flunked with an E-symbol (0-20%) when it come to the amount of money spent on HIV/AIDS, but attained an overall B-symbol for its response to the epidemic on the AIDS Reporting Index, an AIDS Accountability International (AAI) scorecard.
The Free State health department has announced that its financial situation has reached ‘dire proportions’ forcing it to postpone all non-emergency surgery until January next year and stop all non-critical staff appointments.
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Most African farmers grow tobacco because they are poor and lack alternative ways to earn their living, but with encouragement droves of farmers are turning their backs on the killer crops in Tanzania.
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Testing infants at risk of HIV as soon as possible, and treating those infected with the virus immediately, dramatically enhances their chances of survival and reduces the likelihood of devastating disease progression in their early life.