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Follow proceedings at the 2nd International AIDS Society Conference in Paris from July 13 to 16 online courtesy of http://www.kaisernetwork.org – a free online health policy news and information service of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Scientific Programme of the 2nd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment is planned to provide new insights into HIV disease that can lead to new research directions, help speed translational research and move advances into clinical practice. Webcasts will be available of all conference plenaries as well as selected sessions.
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A debate around compulsory HIV testing of miners is set to shake the mining industry in the coming months, raising concerns around discrimination versus the protection of miners if their HIV status is known. By Khopotso Bodibe and Nawaal Deane.
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With a budget of R92 million, Khomanani, government’€™s HIV/AIDS communication campaign is due to end in three months. Was it public money well spent?
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The historic uprising by the youth in Soweto in June 1976 was sparked by, among other things, the imposition of Afrikaans as teaching language in township schools. Today the youth of the new South Africa face different challenges, the most urgent being HIV/AIDS. June is national youth month and the National Youth Commission has embarked a campaign to highlight the many issues that affect the young including unemployment that stands at around 40 percent. Thandeka Teyise of Health-e News Service spoke to Liziwe Konyana, Deputy Director for Communication at the National Youth Commission, about its strategy to help combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and why the commission has chosen to focus on poverty and development.
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Treatment Action Campaign leader Zackie Achmat has received the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health Human Rights by the Washington-based Global Health Council. He was awarded it jointly with Dr Frenk Guni, the former director of the Zimbabwe Network of People living with HIV/AIDS. The award carries U$20 000 prize money. Achmat received U$10 000 of which half was donated to TAC. The award was accepted in Washington on behalf of Achmat by TAC’s women’s health programmes co-ordinator Nonkosi Khumalo. Click to read the full speech.
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Some 4000 Free State children will take part in a study to test the HIV rate of South African children.
Government sets aside R500-million to for increases in allowances and salaries for rural healthcare workers.
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Many religious organisations have long been silent on the issue of HIV prevention, instead addressing the pandemic by offering care to those already infected or support for orphans. Those that do tackle prevention tend to promote sexual abstinence and steer clear of condom promotion. By Abbie van Sickel.
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Less than half the African countries that promised to remove taxes on bed nets have done so.
Seven years after it was first drafted, the National Health Bill ‘€“ intended to guide the transformation of health services ‘€“ is still with the state law advisors.
Up to 150 women out of 100 000 die annually whilst still pregnant, during labour or shortly after giving birth in South Africa. That is the finding of a report published recently by the national Department of Health and that follows three years of monitoring and collecting data on the patterns of maternal deaths. Khopotso Bodibe reports.