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In the latest edition of the World Health Organisation Bulletin health economists explore the extent of fragmentation within the health systems of three African countries. Fragmentation is when there are a large number of separate funding mechanisms (e.g. many small insurance schemes) and a wide range of health-care providers paid from different funding pools which leads to an inequitable system.
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Last week, just before taking his twice yearly tests to check his viral load and CD 4 cells, Pholokgolo Ramothwala told us how he gets scared each time he has to do the tests. The agonising wait for the results is now over and this week, Pholo tells us how it all went.
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Guardianfilms has produced a documentary on how vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath persuaded South African Aids patients to stop taking their prescribed drugs – and use his vitamins – with terrible consequences.
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A recent debate in the journal Future HIV Therapy argues for and against male circumcision as an intervention against HIV.
The SA National AIDS Council plans dynamic AIDS Day including possible 15-minute work stoppages, and the Development Bank of SA takes over secretariat to improve efficiency.
Health officials countrywide are battling to cope with the growing numbers of patients with drug-resistant TB, and provinces are divided about whether to hospitalise all patients or not.
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Writing in his diary about life with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala reveals his anxiety about going for his next big test ‘€“ checking the progression of the virus that lives in his body and the strength of his CD 4 cells.
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A seven-year court battle against the Mpumalanga Health Department has finally ended in victory for Dr Malcolm Naude.
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The failure of the STEP trial (Merck AD5 candidate vaccine) loomed large over last week high-level AIDS Vaccine meeting in Cape Town as delegates tried to look ahead and remain positive about the prospects of discovering an AIDS vaccine.
On 29 of August, doctors, scientists, researchers, politicians and administrators gathered for a morning celebration at Coronation Mother and Child Hospital. The role-players gathered to announce the highly successful initial findings of the multi-therapy prevention of mother-to-child-transmission programme that was introduced some seven months earlier.
Improving our track record in dealing with HIV and AIDS is one of two key priority areas that the new Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, says she will focus on in the next six months.
There is no reason why our dysfunctional health system cannot be turned around within five years, according to new Health Minister Barbara Hogan.