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Cabinet has referred the draft “Operational Plan for Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care and Treatment” back to the technical task team to provide more information on certain legal matters and the “scope of research” during implementation of the roll-out.
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South Africa and other southern African countries are on the verge of eliminating measles thanks to an effective vaccine and solid efforts to innoculate children against the diesease. Dr Greg Hussey, head of Paedriatric Infectious Disease Unit at Red Cross Children Hospital spoke to Health-e.
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More than a month ago Canada announced, to great applause from the developing world and tireless AIDS activists, that it was willing to change its laws and allow generic drug manufacturers to export cheaper anti-retrovirals to poorer countries. Health-e looks at how the announcement came about and when it is likely to start delivering the desperately needed drugs.
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South Africa ushered in a milestone event in the history of HIV/AIDS this week when the first of two human clinical trials of an HIV vaccine started in Durban and Johannesburg. Recent studies have shown that the efficacy of a vaccine can vary between men and women and so there has been a special effort to enrol equal numbers of both sexes for the trials.
A new study has found that prolonged shift-work might be bad for your health. Health-e News investigates. By Adele Hamilton.
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The 2002 Nelson Mandela Foundation/HSRC study shows that most South Africans take HIV more seriously once they know someone who has died of an AIDS related illness. Health-e canvassed the views of some youths and found that they agreed.
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Despite being a vaccine-preventable death, 745 000 children under five are killed each year by measles ‘€“ 2 000 every day ‘€“ and at least half are in Africa. Unicef and the World Health Organisation have targeted 45 countries in the hope of halving the deaths by 2005.
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Projections in the Africa Journal of AIDS Research show that HIV incidence rates in the 15 to 49 years age group have decreased from 4.2 % in 1997 to 1.7 % in 2003. Health-e spoke to researchers who believe that new sexual practices among the youth are at the core of this change.
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Every district in the country will be compelled to offer anti-retroviral drugs to citizens if Cabinet approves the drug rollout plan that is expected to be presented to it in the near future.
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African diva and queen of funk Angelique Kidjo is more than a musician. She’s also a UN goodwill ambassador and on a visit to Cape Town urged girls to refuse to have unprotected sex.
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Children with AIDS can take antiretroviral medicines but caregivers need to know how to monitor these young patients. Health-e talks to Dr Mark Cotton, a children’€™s specialist at Tygerberg Children’€™s Hospital.
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In this third and final feature, we travel with Goitsemang to the doctor as he learns more about HIV and AIDS in an effort to assist his sister, Dibuseng, who was diagnosed with HIV three months ago.