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Health systems cannot properly diagnose, treat, or contain the co-epidemic of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) because not enough is known about how the two diseases interact.
South Africa’€™s health department has come under fire from activists and HIV/tuberculosis experts for its failure to respond to extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB with claims that one of the critical drugs to stem this epidemic is not available in KwaZulu-Natal, the hotbed of the outbreak.
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Differences between government and AIDS activists are slowing down efforts to reach agreement on a comprehensive plan for HIV and AIDS in prisons.
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At the close of breast cancer awareness month, cancer organisations say proper testing and treatment services for breat cancer are completely inadequate.
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The spread of HIV/AIDS in rural areas has seen some people blaming migrant workers as being largely responsible for the spread of the pandemic.
Measures to reduce the spread of XDR-TB in hospital settings, the continuous poaching of African nurses by the West and Russia’€™s raging HIV epidemic are some of the stories in the latest Centers for Disease Control Update.
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Experts warn of impending crisis in health systems geared towards epidemics not diseases such as cancer.
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A new study looking at violence and sexual aggression in a Gauteng youth male correctional facility shows that many prison rapes go unreported. This makes HIV infection among rape survivors a real threat.
One of the biggest killers in Africa, but often overlooked in the age of AIDS, cancer will be the focus this week when experts gather for the 6th International Congress of African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) meeting in Cape Town.
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The Health Department has recalled millions of male condoms it supplies annually after further testing revealed even more of the barriers were of inferior quality.
Israeli doctors will be traveling to Swaziland for two week stints to assist in a mass circumcision campaign in the hope of curbing the spread of HIV. This and other stories are contained in the latest Centers for Disease Control HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention newsletter.
The credibility of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital’€™s management is under scrutiny, following the recent media expose’€™ of poor conditions in the facility’€™s maternity ward.