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Government claims its long-promised regulations aimed at curbing alcohol abuse will ‘soon’ be published for public comment. But how should it deal with excessive drinking when alcohol is so much part of South African culture?
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Ngwahola ka yona nako ena, Nonhlanhla Kubheka, a dilemo tse ka nnqane ho 40 a bile e le mme wa bana ba ba babedi, e ne e le wa ba bang ba etsang ditletlebo ho mmuso hore o fumantshe batho ba kulang ka Phamokathe meriana e mona e fokotsang matla a tshwaetso ya kokwana hloko ya HIV. Mona re buisana le yena ho fumana maikutlio a hae ka leeto leo Afrika Borwa e e tsamaileng ho tla fihla mothating ona moo meriana ena e seng e fumaneha.
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This time last year, Nonhlanhla Kubheka, a 40-something year-old single mother of two, was among those urging government to provide treatment for those people living with HIV/AIDS. Health-e News Service spoke with Nonhlanhla Kubheka and looks at how far we’ve come.
Teenage pregnancies, alcohol abuse and poverty are key health concerns in the Northern Cape, the country’s largest and sparsest province.
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Tuesday last week was International Children’s Day. It was also the day on which we heard the news that government had instructed all provinces that had begun implementing an HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Plan to stop enrolling any more children for treatment. Health-e News Service takes a look at the supply of antiretroviral drugs in the public health sector.
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Support from friends and family can make all the difference to people living with HIV/AIDS. Lulu Sibam, who together with her husband and child is now on ARV therapy, speaks warmly of the encouraging role played by her family and parents-in-law.
International Children’s Day today (June 1) has led to renewed calls for children to receive lifesaving social grants. But many still receive nothing. Elvis Lerale and Theresa Chabalala are both orphans and live in Limpopo. Health-e first visited them three years ago and returned recently to Maupye and Radoo villages to find that one of them has secured a social grant, while the other still lives in abject poverty.
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Beautiful Gate Lesotho, a non-profit ministry situated in an industrial area some 20 minutes south of the capital Maseru, is home to 22 infants. Some are abandoned and others orphaned, mostly because of AIDS. Health-e visited the centre.
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Mokgahlo wa Beautiful Gate naheng ya Lesotho ke lekala la tshebelletso ya Beautiful Gate Ministries eo dikantoro tsa yona di leng Afrika Borwa. Ho tloha toropong e kgolo ya Maseru ho ka nka metsotso e 20 pele o fihla teng. Ke lehae la masea a lahluweng ke batswadi. Bongata ba bona ke dikgutsana tseo batswadi ba bolauweng ke lefu la Phamkokathe. Kaofela ba 22 ka palo. Re ile ra etela lehae lena la bana ho ya bona hore na ebe ba phela jwang.
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Lulu Sibam is a young mother from Khayelitsha. Her husband and child Mihle have been on antiretroviral therapy since December 2001. Lulu first started treatment in 2003 but dropped out of the Medecins Sans Frontieres programme. She has since re-started her therapy and together with her family is doing well.
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After an exhilerating four months of restored health and high energy on antiretroviral therapy, chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign Zackie Achmat has had to face up to certain side effects and to change one of his drugs. He talks about how he’s doing now and the long-term public health challenges of prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
One person can make a difference. Ask those who work with or who are treated by the jazz-loving maverick Dr Zola Ntshona, an obstetrician at the Polokwane hospital.