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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.
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Johannesburg – The mystery viral haemorrhagic fever which killed three people in South Africa has been provisionally identified as an arenavirus, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the Department of Health said on Sunday.
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The National Department of Health and its Gauteng counterpart are on high alert following the confirmation of three cases of an unknown highly infectious disease which has since led to three deaths.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has called on the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and Nursing Council to investigate those hospitals responsible for the seemingly negligent deaths of the 140 children in the Ukhahlamba district of the Eastern Cape.