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In May last year, little Lara Price lost her battle against liver disease. For three months, her desperate parents, Rennie and Alison, waited in the vain hope that a donor liver would become available for their little girl.
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DURBAN – While squabbling over human rights and other issues around HIV, the country allowed the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic to grow out of control and take a hold over the country, AIDS Law Project Executive Director Mark Heywood has told delegates at the South African TB conference.
This is the last in our two-part conversation with Dr Thys von Mollendorff, author of ‘Dare to care’, a personal account of how political interference can deny patients the right to appropriate and quality health care.
DURBAN – South Africa needs to revisit its stubborn policy of not employing foreign qualified doctors from other African countries, despite the fact that they are already in the country, the country’s first TB conference has heard.
Independent health economist, Alex van den Heever, says the country’s public health system does not have the capacity to accommodate foreign migrants. The statement follows a series of reports of foreign migrants being denied access to health care.
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DURBAN – Workers at health facilities are increasingly infected with tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB) as they come into close and lengthy contact with infected patients, the first national TB conference heard yesterday (Wednesday).
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Thirty three of the 82 patients with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB admitted at the Brooklyn Chest Clinic in Cape Town have died and only four have been cured.
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DURBAN – South African health workers should become more afraid of tuberculosis (TB) and the impact it is having on health resources and people living with HIV, infectious diseases expert Professor Anton Stoltz has told the opening session of the country’s first TB conference.
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A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth can reduce the risk of death in the developing world by 15 percent, according to a study released this week.
Smoke-free policies are reducing heart disease related to smoke exposure, the prevalence of smoking in adults and the exposure of both adults and children to second-hand smoke.
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In a breakthrough which will have a major impact on curbing the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in developing countries, including South Africa, the endemic disease will in future be diagnosed within a day and not the standard two to three months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced.
Hope is at hand for South African women unable to afford a new vaccine to combat cervical cancer as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance) has announced it plans to get the vaccine to high burden populations.