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The Health Products Association ‘€“ the umbrella body for the complementary and alternative medicines industry – has criticized the government for failing to create regulations the industry.
A lack of guidelines regulating the multi-billion rand complementary medicines industry makes it difficult to control against false medicinal claims. This places consumers at the mercy of charlatans who claim that they can cure AIDS and other conditions.
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Ambiguous statements by political leaders about HIV/AIDS could cause massive damage to the response to the pandemic, Dr Donald Dickinson an Associate Professor at Wits Business School has said.
The South African Security Forces Union filed court papers against its employer, the South African National Defence Force, this week. The union seeks to challenge five SANDF policies which it says discriminate against HIV-positive soldiers.
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Despite the existence of interventions to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission, the number of AIDS orphans also infected with HIV is increasing in the country.
HIV-positive people living in Graaff-Reinet and surrounds are dying as they wait for the long-promised arrival of antiretrovirals, leaving hospice workers in the Eastern Cape town to care for the dying patients and the children they leave behind.
The townships’€™ terminally ill get dumped in unprepared rural homes.
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Workplace HIV/AIDS peer educators can have an impact far beyond their place of work into their communities, according to a report released recently.
Hospice workers become the voice of the vulnerable, supporting those at the end of their lives.
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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.