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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’.
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South African society does not know how to deal with those who are disabled and the challenges that families with disabled children face are virtually never spoken about. A photographer and three researchers are trying to break the ice.
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The emergence of the super drug resistant strain of tuberculosis, XDR-TB, in KwaZulu-Natal is not an unexpected occurrence. It’s a product of a TB programme that does not effectively address the TB problem, say experts.
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Matters can only improve on the public relations front when it comes to Government’s AIDS campaign following its disastrous showing at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
Psychiatric patients have been long neglected by the health system and hidden from the public eye. Recently, a commission of enquiry heard evidence of gross abuses, including sexual and physical abuse, of psychiatric patients by staff at Townhill Hospital in Pietermaritzburg.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) battle to oust health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has gained backing from six political parties.
While Kimberley has one of the best doctor-patient ratios in the country, a few kilometres away Warrenton Hospital battles to attract a single doctor.
Creative thinking has enabled Kimberley to have one of the best doctor-patient ratios in the country.
Patients are dying unnecessarily because South Africa’s public hospitals are over-burdened, under-staffed and poorly managed.
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There are still no definite answers from the Health Department regarding the fate their flagship HIV/AIDS communication campaign, Khomanani. There have been widespread reports that the programme has been halted. But the Health Minister says that’s news to her.