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Three teachers from different schools that are miles apart in rural Tzaneen share one thing in common: having to deal with growing numbers of learners who have no parents.
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In what was once a productive farming area of Calais, a deep rural village of Tzaneen in Limpopo, a Catholic missionary property abandoned for over a decade is now home to over 80 orphaned and sick children.
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In Tzaneen, in Limpopo, denial and witchcraft give caregivers a hard time, as families of AIDS patients believe that their illnesses cannot be treated using Western medicines.
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The National Strategic Plan (NSP) target to place another 120 000 adults and 70 000 children on antiretrovirals by the end of the year was not simply a government matter, Health department Director-General Thami Mseleku told journalists yesterday.
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The US Secretary of Health – equivalent of our minister of health – praises a dusty semi-rural area in KwaZulu-Natal for its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS.
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For four days of the week, Sister Corona, a Catholic nun, travels the villages of Modjadjiskloof district, outside Tzaneen in Limpopo, to minister to the needs of the sick. We followed her on one of her trips to provide home-based care.
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The government’€™s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
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The government’€™s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
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The government’€™s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
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AIDS activist group, Treatment Action Campaign, has intensified its call to the Department of Health to move from the current policy of offering only a single drug, Nevirapine, in its Prevention-of-Mother-To-Child HIV programme.
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Healthy lifestyle, screening and testing can help prevent cancer.
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The annual national antenatal HIV and Syphilis prevalence survey released by the Department of Health last week, shows a steady decline in new HIV infections in women under the age of 24. However, the report shows a worrying growth in HIV amongst older women aged 30 ‘€“ 39.