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The Treatment Action Campaign will reject government’€™s invitation to participate in the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS (UNGASS) at the end of May unless its ally, the Aids Law Project is also invited.
After 18 months of preparation, the Department of Health has finally released its Human Resources for Health Plan. One of the Plan’€™s key objectives is to attract more students in the health sciences disciplines.
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They say in life situations come and go. But when myths around HIV and AIDS come, do they really go away? If they persist, what effect do they have on people and their perception of HIV risk and prevention?
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In the Western and Northern Cape have some of the worst rates of foetal alcohol syndrome in the world. In the Western Cape 40 out of every 1000 children in their first year of school suffer from foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). The urban black communities are also worst hit areas. This is according to Professor Arnold Christianson, co-author of a global report on Birth Defects.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’€™s irresponsible HIV statements are causing confusion, prompting a body representing more than 12 000 HIV specialists to clarify matters.
The World Health Report 2006 paints a dire picture of massive healthworker shortages in poor countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa where the rich developed nations plunder the African health workforce.
Health workers save lives and we have to value them as an investment. That is the message from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to all governments of the world, this World Health Day.
A first in HIV vaccine trials is taking place in South Africa. A vaccine will be tested on people already infected with the HI-virus in the hope that it will delay or prevent their progression to full-blown AIDS.
Thousands of women in South Africa and elsewhere have volunteered for the world’s largest clinical trials to test the efficacy of a range of microbicides, that, if successful, could prevent at least 2,5 million new infections in the developing world, over the next five years.
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Thousands of child headed homes in the Eastern Cape suffer because they remain unidentified. These children only depend on their neighbours for living. But the neighbourliness soon wears off ‘€“ and the children are seen as a burden.
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The long duration of treatment and huge pill doses TB patients must take are seen as the major obstacles to patient compliance. It is for these reasons that scientists are working to discover new and better medicines to cure tuberculosis. We spoke to Professor Valerie Mizrahi, one of the research scientists at the forefront of this quest.
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It’s not about the physical pain. It’s about the emotional pain. That’s what I came to learn. When I was raped, they took something away from me. They took my dignity. They took something I can’t get back.