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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.
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Beetroot, lemon, garlic and African potato were at the heart of a bitter conflict between Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and AIDS activists over government’s AIDS programme at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto over the past week.
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A doctor who gave up a thriving private practice in Gauteng to help people living with HIV in a rural backwater was named ‘Rural Doctor of the Year’ last week.
Densely populated, crime ridden; filthy and full of brothels is how Hillbrow is usually described. Sex workers thrive. The rate of sexually transmitted infections is high in such areas. Yet an HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing programme introduced a few years ago is showing positive results. And a number of women in this area celebrate Women’s Day with vigour ‘ knowing that they have a clean bill of health.