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It all seems like old hat for Jennifer-Joyce Hendricks. She walks into the open ward, places her file on the shelf, greets the sister, slips her shoes off for the weigh-in and takes her seat in one of the black lazy-boy chairs.
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Whichever way you try to look at it – Lungi Hlakudi has one of the toughest jobs imaginable. As assistant social work manager at Groote Schuur Hospital, Hlakudi is a critical cog in deciding whether kidney patients are approved, or not, for lifesaving dialysis. And more often than not, he is the one who has to tell desperately ill patients when they have failed to make the cut.
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For Chesna Cupido, it’€™s been a long road to get to this point. Suffering her first bout of kidney disease 19 years ago, ill health, exhaustion and pain has become part of her daily reality, but she’€™s clear that it’€™s her children that motivate her to return to Groote Schuur time and time again.
Ten years of living with HIV! Is it possible to tell a decade of my life without writing a book? It is probably not possible, but since I have a couple more decades to live, I will use the time to tell the rest of my story.
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Ten years after being diagnosed with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala has stopped waiting for his death. Instead, he says he is looking after his health, hopes to stop drinking alcohol and is working on creating financial security for his children.
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Nokwayiyo Racasa is a former teacher who lives in Gugulethu on the Cape Flats. If you’€™d seen her five years ago, you would not have recognized her. She was thin; she often got sick; she had no energy.
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The high mortality rate in children under the age of five years might soon be a thing of the past. This follows the announcement by the Department of Health that it will roll-out Prevenar, a vaccine that prevents pneumococcus pneumonia, one of the leading causes of child deaths.
The launch of the Centre of Excellence in Palliative Care in Johannesburg last week brings hope and courage to people with incurable illnesses, who often suffer enormous physical pain and emotional pain.
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Films showing real-life experiences that put us at risk of HIV infection and how people are dealing with the epidemic have been produced for television. The nine short films were produced by film-makers from nine countries in southern Africa.
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The high number of South African women who die of breast cancer every year has prompted 12 breast cancer survivors to ride motorcycles from Johannesburg to Cape Town to promote awareness about breast cancer
Parliament’€™s health committee has rejected a move by the health department to introduce a two-tier system for medicines approval whereby the health minister would have had the final say over whether a medicine could be registered.