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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has vowed to continue using the courts to protect those living with HIV. The Cape Town High Court recently ruled in its favor to stop Dr Matthias Rath from conducting unauthorized clinical trials and promoting his multivitamins to people living with AIDS.
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The Cape High Court’€™s ruling against controversial German vitamin salesman Dr Matthias Rath, last week, is the first decisive action against charlatans who claim they can cure AIDS. This judgement should set a precedent for action against many others.
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Lobby groups are concerned about the high numbers of women who die of breast cancer every year in South Africa, despite the fact that the disease is one of the most curable cancers if detected early.
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The health department will not appeal Friday’€™s Cape High Court judgment which ruled that German vitamin seller Matthias Rath’€™s scientific trials were illegal.
Two bills recently tabled in Parliament are set to shake up the private hospital industry and centralise decision-making over hospital tariffs as well as the regulation of new medicines and scientific trials within the health minister’€™s office.
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The Cape High Court landed the final nail in the coffin of vitamin salesman Matthias Rath’€™s South African operations and delivered a blow to organisations peddling untested remedies when it ruled that the German doctor’€™s clinical trials were unlawful.
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Researchers have found that the number of sexual partners that people in southern Africa have ‘€“ usually all at the same time – could be the reason why the sub-continent has the highest HIV infection rate.
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Men are generally known to be reluctant to test for HIV. But statistics collected by New Start, a non governmental organization working in getting people to test for HIV, suggest the opposite.
The special task team into Manguzi Hospital reported back almost a month ago, but still the KZN MEC’s office has not released its findings
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Seven years after effectively being dismissed by the Mpumalanga health department for supporting the dispensing of anti-retrovirals for rape survivors, Dr Malcolm Naude is fighting for the rights of all public service doctors and nurses to follow their conscience when treating patients.
The health department has started the training a new category of healthcare worker, but will need more money from treasury if it is to become a sustainable intervention.
For seven years, Dr Malcolm Naude has been fighting the Mpumalanga Health Department over an unfair and discriminatory dismissal. His case concluded last week in the Labour Court in Johannesburg and judgement was reserved.