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Doctors and The Lancet have slammed immigration officials who removed a terminally ill Ghanaian woman from a hospital in Wales and escorted her back to Ghana, where she is unable to afford the treatment she needs to prolong her life.
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The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has come up with a new strategy to empower cancer patients and their families. It has introduced a CD with relevant helpful information about the disease.
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Perhaps the most encouraging news about HIV/AIDS this year is that prevalence rates in South Africa and the world are decreasing. The decline might be small, but it’s certainly something to build on going forth into 2008.
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The arrival of the first batch of ARVs in June, 2005, at Madwaleni Hospital, in the rural area of Mbashe outside Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape, changed how health-care workers and the community view AIDS.
A single dose of two antiretrovirals given to mothers shortly after giving birth has shown to reduce the chances of the women developing later resistance, a new study from Zambia has shown.
The health indicators, which provide a snapshot of our nation’s health, still paint a picture of a violent, racially divided country where women bear the brunt of disease.
Traditional medicine generates almost R3-billion a year and government needs to urgently remove barriers preventing its practitioners from claiming from medical schemes for services rendered.
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Whether it’s to test a vaccine or a microbicide to reduce HIV risk, clinical trials rely heavily on the goodwill of people. Without them, such trials won’t take place. But what motivates people to want to be part of these trials?
South Africa is sitting on a ‘future time bomb’ as employers remove medical health insurance from employees when they retire.
While hospital beds in the public sector are being reduced, the private sector has added almost 7 000 beds between 1998 and 2006.
Compulsory health insurance could be an effective way of dealing with problems in the private sector and addressing disparities between public and private health sectors.
The introduction of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in South Africa has been one of the more significant health care reforms in recent years, accelerating the efficient delivery of health care services at costs that are affordable.