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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.
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On 23 July, Health-e wrote an article about Dr Matthais Rath’s court case in Germany, based on a report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ this week retracted the story. As result, Health-e has removed the story from its website and apologises to Dr Rath for publishing the allegations.
Over a 12-year period, AIDS cases have replaced gun-shot and stab wounds at Natalspruit Hospital. The increase in the demand for beds due to AIDS-related complications is resulting in the squeezing out of other essential hospital services. Health care workers at Natalspruit Hospital talk about the impact of AIDS on the facility.
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African National Congress Member of Parliament Ben Turok cut a lone figure among the 400 odd plastic chairs in front of Parliament’s gates yesterday where Aids activists staged a ‘people’s parliament’.