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Linda Hlahatsi is a prime example of the kind of health workers this country needs to train and retain.
The elderly woman, her thinning grey hair swept into a tiny ponytail, kicks her feet under the blue hospital blanket and lets out a long moan. She rocks her head from side to side and wails quietly, before turning onto her side.
Gauteng has the most extensive provincial HIV/AIDS programme in the country, and has more than tripled the number of people on antiretroviral drugs in the past year alone.
Nurses are at the forefront of providing care for HIV-infected patients. A new book, ‘The Pocket Guide for HIV and AIDS Nursing Care’, aims to sharpen their knowledge and skills as well as address nurses’ own struggles with AIDS.
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Two thirds of all persons infected with HIV are living in sub-Saharan Africa ‘ 24,7-milllion people ‘ while 2,8-million adults and children became infected this year alone. This is more than all the other regions in the world combined according to the latest figures published in the UNUAIDS/WHO 2006 AIDS Epidemic Update.
Kerry Cullinan speaks to the Deputy Health Minister, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
With the health minister out of the limelight due to illness, her deputy, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, has stepped out of the shadows with a fresh take on HIV/AIDS.
Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge talks to Kerry Cullinan about government’s ‘new energy’ on HIV/AIDS
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The rising HIV infection rate in Africa calls for broadcasters on the continent to make more airtime and other resources available to increase awareness and encourage behaviour change. At a recent meeting the broadcasters ‘ under an initiative called the African Broadcast Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDS – decided to do so by promoting a message of hope.
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In the heart of North West mining territory, the 352-bed Rustenburg Hospital is almost full to capacity, admitting over 2 000 patients and treating over 8 000 out-patients per month. TB and pneumonia, both closely associated with HIV, are seen everyday. Staff is grappling to deal with the patient-load.
Against the odds, a small rural hospital with a zealous clinical head performs complicated hip replacement operations.
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Aids activists and journalists are mourning the death of Omololu Falobi, founding member and the director of Journalists against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria. He died from injuries sustained in an armed robbery on Thursday.