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Health MEC’s “racist” tilt at doctors gets reported to the ANC and Human Rights Commission.
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In spite of its middle income status, South Africa is high up with 10 of the 68 worst performing countries in making progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) that relates to reducing child deaths by 2015.
An audit of deaths of children under the age of five in the South African health care system shows that many of these deaths can be avoided.
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Despite attempts by both the government and other sectors to encourage testing for HIV, most South African men are still not willing to get tested. We spoke to some of the nation’€™s men’€™s organizations to get more insight on this.
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Health experts have warned of a possible increase of cervical cancer among HIV-positive women if nothing is done to prevent the Human Papilloma Virus, which causes this form of cancer.
The strive to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is not a race where success is based on the position one holds in relation to other competitors, Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has told the Countdown to 2015 conference underway in Cape Town.
International health experts and government representatives converge in Cape Town today for a three-day conference looking at improving maternal and child health care. But is Africa doing enough to save mothers and children from the risk of death?
The achievement of Millenium Development Goal 4 – that is, to prevent babies and children from dying ‘€“ is not possible if the other seven goals in the Millenium Declaration are not adequately addressed. Dr Phetsile Dlamini is the co-ordinator of the African Union programme in the national Department of Health.
Leading global health experts, policy makers and parliamentarians meet in Cape Town today for the Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival conference. Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organisation’€™s Family and Community Health Division, reports on the state of the world’€™s maternal and child mortality.
South Africa is one of the 10 worst performing countries in reducing child deaths thus making progress towards reaching the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which aims to reduce by two-thirds the death rate of children by 2015.
Last week, we reported on how people’€™s ability to change their behaviour can help reduce the spread of HIV in the face of scientific setbacks to devise vaccines or microbicides to protect against the virus. In this report, we look at some of the social factors that could enhance behaviour change to prevent more infections.
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In just less than two months after the registration of Glaxo-Smith-Kline’€™s cervical cancer vaccine by the Medicines Control Council, the regulatory body has registered yet another vaccine aimed at preventing the cancer.