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Half of the country’€™s nurses are working in private hospitals and some 42 000 posts are vacant. HIV/AIDS is worsening the distribution of health personnel around the country. These are some of the findings of the 2004 South African Health Review.
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How does a 23 year-old Theology student admit to his fiancé and his church that he is HIV positive? That was Reverend Christo Greyling’€™s dilemma in 1987 when he was diagnosed with HIV. Health-e News Service spoke with him about how he’€™s lived with HIV all this time. This is the first of two parts of Rev. Greyling’€™s story.
Overburdened and under-resourced, William Slater Centre is the only public institution of its kind that helps problem teens in the Western Cape.
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The 15th International AIDS Conference might be over but the fight against HIV/AIDS will be with us for many years. Health-e talked to delegates from South Africa, France, Tanzania and United States and asked them their views about the conference.
HIV/AIDS and lifestyle diseases are the chief causes of death among South Africans, doctors and nurses continue to leave the country and health spending is not keeping pace with what is needed. All in all, we’€™re not looking too healthy.
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More than 20 years into the AIDS epidemic and UNAIDS estimates that worldwide some 38 million people are living with HIV. AIDS has killed an estimated 20 million people. At the closure of the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel pleaded with world leaders, politicians and the business community to combat the epidemic.
The Medicines Control Council, has recommended to the Health Ministry that it stop using nevirapine as a single agent in the prevention of mother-to-child-HIV-transmission. Health-e caught up with the Registrar of medicines Precious Matsoso, at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, and asked her why the MCC made the decision.
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Young people around the globe are at the heart of the AIDS epidemic. Thirty two percent (12.1 million) of under 25 year-olds are HIV-positive, according to UNAIDS. Despite the disproportionate risks and burdens they face, young people are also the world’€™s best hope in the fight against the epidemic. But voices of youth were still marginal at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
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The male condom is still the most effective intervention to prevent HIV transmission. Evidence from studies to suggest that male circumcision decreases the risk even further is still inconclusive, a South African scientist has told delegates at the Bangkok AIDS Conference.
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It was a process of turning down the heat as South African scientists, health workers, government officials and activists met to clarify recent statements by the Medicines Control Council and the Minister of Health.
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It was a process of turning down the heat as South African scientists, health workers, government officials and activists met to clarify recent statements by the Medicines Control Council and the Minister of Health.
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It was a process of turning down the heat as South African scientists, health workers, government officials and activists met to clarify recent statements by the Medicines Control Council and the Minister of Health at lunchtime.