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Los Angeles police are investigating Aids dissident Christine Maggiore who doesn’t believe HIV causes Aids, after her three-year-old died of Aids-related pneumonia.
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Renewed calls for Government to take action against the controversial Dr Rath Health Foundation have come from a large group of health professionals working in the Western Cape’s internationally acclaimed antiretroviral programme.
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Cosatu secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi fired a broadside at Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and President Thabo Mbeki at the weekend, accusing them of failing to provide leadership in the fight against HIV. The minister’s spokesperson has in turn accused Vavi of being irresponsible and ignorant. Read the full text of Vavi’s speech and the minister’s statement here.
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In her recently-published book, ‘Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African’, first-time author Liz McGregor asks the most pertinent question: Why did Fana Khaba, the popular deceased DJ on Gauteng-based youth station, YFM, die?
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Top government health officials seem poised to let the Dr Rath Health Foundation off the hook for conducting illegal clinical trials on people with HIV in Khayelitsha.
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While the Department of Health’s nutrition expert has been quick to point out concerns over Dr Matthias Rath’s multi-vitamin supplements, which he touts as the only effective way to ‘fight off’ HIV, its Director-General says there is nothing wrong with the pills, nor the activities of Rath’s Health Foundation in South Africa.
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There is much to worry about regarding the multi-vitamin supplements being marketed to South Africa’s HIV-positive population by the German doctor, Matthias Rath, according to the Department of Health’s own nutrition expert, Lynne Moeng.
The worldwide shortage of health workers means that rich countries are not likely to stop poaching health workers from poorer countries.
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Two HIV-positive women in Khayelitsha died within weeks of being convinced to discard their medication in favour of vitamins touted as a cure by the Dr Rath Health Foundation, while others say they were told to strip to their underwear, photographed and had blood taken without giving consent.
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Lack of funds is behind the decision, amid claims of “protocol violations” and counter-claims of unilateral decision-making by the funder.
Children tend to do better on antiretroviral treatment than adults, but many treatment sites are nervous to treat them.
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A new school of thought in gender and AIDS education is emerging. It reckons that women should not be seen simply as passive victims in the transmission of HIV.