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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has dangled a U$100-million carrot in front of scientists, especially those in Africa and Asia, who may have ‘creative, unorthodox ideas’ that could lead to breakthroughs against some of the greatest health challenges facing poor countries.
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The halting of the HVTN 503 vaccine trial, dubbed ‘Phambili’, has left some doubtful that an effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection will ever be found.
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The Treatment Action Campaign has sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki formally requesting that he appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into the presidency and health ministry’s involvement in the promotion and testing of Virodene. Read the full letter here as well as a synopsis of the Virodene affair.
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The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update focuses on the Caribbean’s slow response to the AIDS epidemic, Australia’s Hepatitis C epidemic which is fuelled by injecting drug use and London’s efforts to get condoms to Olympic athletes come 2012.
Treatment Action Campaign member Emma Baleka has revealed in an affidavit how she was told by an associate of controversial lawyer Christine Qunta that the Comforter’s Healing Gift products would cure AIDS.
In a first for South Africa, a national PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) hotline, manned by HIV positive women who are part of the mothers2mothers (m2m) organization, has been launched.
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Health-e will be posting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update every week. The Update focuses on news from around the world in the fields of among others HIV, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Tuberculosis.
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Dance4life is helping learners to campaign against problems at school using dance, drama and singing
Continuing with our theme from last week, today we hear that the prison system fails to deliver even the most basic tools to protect male prisoners from HIV infection.
Although he could have worked almost anywhere, the late Dr Thabo Mnisi chose to go back to Alexandra on his return from exile
Medical aid schemes and private hospitals have come under fire from the Health Minister for charging high fees.
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Sex and sexual violence are common in the South African male prison community. Yet efforts aimed at reducing the violence and addressing HIV prevention are lacking.