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Hospitals send patients that they can no longer do anything for to hospices. Often, such patients are about to die. Nonhlanhla Nyembe was one such patient, but amazingly, she’€™s still alive.
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The spread of HIV /AIDS, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal province, has seen an increase of patients who receive home-based care from different hospices in the province.
The next round in the battle against bed cuts at Western Cape hospitals will take place at the provincial parliament on Wednesday when health workers hold a protest meeting outside the legislature to voice their opposition to multi-million rand budget cuts announced in March.
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Hospice care does not just end with tending to the health needs of the sick. While following a home-based care-giver from the Mofolo Hospice in Soweto, it’€™s evident that care-givers often deal with social problems of their patients.
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This week is Hospice Week in South Africa. To mark this, we look at the work of a few hospices. When it first set up in Mofolo, Soweto, in a corrugated iron structure nine years ago, Mofolo Hospice had only two nursing sisters and less than 40 patients. Today, the centre has a staffing complement of 20 and over 500 patients in its books.
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The much talked about Johannesburg-based Zuzimpilo Medical Centre is experiencing difficulties in meeting its target of enrolling 1000 people on ARV treatment before the end of the year.
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Late last November, the first subsidised, low-cost HIV and AIDS care clinic, opened in Johannesburg. Five months later, clinic management is concerned that demand for the service hasn’€™t quite reached expectations.
Leading environmental scientists say unfavorable weather conditions caused by global climate change could fuel the spread of malaria in areas where it has never been experienced before.
A publication looking at health and human rights would be incomplete without a focus on HIV/AIDS. The recently-published Health & Democracy is one such book.
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The Democratic Nurses’€™ Union of South Africa (DENOSA) is calling upon the Health Department, to strengthen safety measures to protect nurses from the highly infectious Multi-Drug and Extremely-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
The World Health Organisation has called on governments to include a childhood vaccine, known as Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, which acts against pneumonia and meningitis in their national immunisation programmes. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children globally, and more so, in countries with a high burden of HIV.
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Dr. Hugo Templeman, a Dutch physician who runs one of the best clinics in the impoverished rural village of Elandsdoorn in Limpopo province says that his is a model rural clinic.