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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.
The private sector is putting pressure on government to allow it to operate private medical schools.
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The recent announcement about the failure of the leading AIDS vaccine candidate developed by Merck & Co. is another in a series of disappointing setbacks in HIV prevention. How we as a global community choose to respond to this news, however, is the real test.
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An HIV vaccine is possible, but it will take some time before it’s discovered, says the head of the HIV/AIDS Research Unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Prof. Lynn Morris.
A new organisation supported by US celebrities has caused controversy in northern KwaZulu-Natal, prompting the question: is there enough co-ordination of donor funding of HIV/AIDS?
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Good news is hard to come by in rural Eastern Cape, but Madwaleni Hospital’s HIV programme is inspiring.
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The focus of this year’s World AIDS Day is on leadership, with the slogans ‘Take the lead. Stop AIDS. Keep the promise’. And a key emphasis is on how individuals can lead the response against AIDS.
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For weeks, only three people turned up for support group meetings in Nkanya but Kopana and her colleagues didn’t give up.
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When scientists first started developing vaccines against HIV, they believed that it would take them 10 years to find one. Now, more than two decades later, they say they don’t know how long it will take.