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South African scientists have made a breakthrough which could help to understand how the XDR TB strain is resistant to drugs. Read highlights from the latest CDC Prevention Update here.
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After what he calls ‘many years of government stalling’, this week the Labour Court finally heard the case of a former Mpumalanga doctor. Dr Malcolm Naude is challenging the Mpumalanga Department of Health for dismissing him, he alleges, on the grounds that he provided antiretroviral treatment to rape survivors.
The case of dismissed Mpumalanga doctor Malcolm Naude could have wide implications for all doctors working in the public sector.
South Africa’s public health crisis is deep-rooted in systemic problems and progress will require far-sighted, sustainable solutions, is the argument in Critical Health Perspectives, a publication of the People’s Health Movement. By David Pienaar.
A Mpumalanga doctor has turned to the Labour Court to challenge what he says was unfair dismissal by the Mpumalanga health department in 2001 for treating rape survivors.
Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang described as disturbing the photograph of three babies in a cardboard box at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital while the DA urged her to “look in the mirror” if she wanted to know who to blame.
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Initial findings from studies to test a malaria vaccine in African infants are promising, conclude authors of an article published in the Lancet.
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The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update reports on a new antiretroviral drug to help drug-resistant patients, the importance of treating Chlamydia and the re-appearance of Kaposi’s sarcoma in the US.
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The recent corruption scandal at the South African Bureau of Standards, which resulted in huge numbers of condoms reaching the public without undergoing the necessary testing procedures, has helped fuel the already existing negative perception about the reliability of government condoms.
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A new ARV drug, a dramatic upswing in HIV infection in Australia and the importance of considering size when manufacturing condoms are some of the articles in the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says poor communities are hardest hit by poor infrastructure and the shortage of staff in the public health care system.
Doctors worldwide have slammed the consistent health and human rights abuses in Zimbabwe at the 58th General Assembly of the World Medical Association (WMA), an international organisation representing physicians worldwide, in Copenhagen.