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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.
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Contrary to popular belief, it is not entirely difficult to get men to test for HIV. This is according to New Start, a non-profit public health programme offering low-cost Voluntary Counselling and Testing services.
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After seven years of ‘down time’ South Africa is back in the business of vaccine production with the formulating and filling of the hepatitis B vaccine at the Biovac Institute, a public-private partnership.
The cost of wars in Africa over the last 15 years could solve the HIV/AIDS crisis, prevent TB and malaria, or provide clean water, sanitation and education for the continent, an Oxfam report has found.