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Researchers Nabisa Jama and Mzikazi Nduna work for the Stepping Stones programme at the Medical Research Council. In this package we hear about the materialistic undertones to many adolescent sexual relationships and the gap between what boys and girls understand by love.
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Drug giant Pfizer has extended its offer of free diflucan (fluconazole) to HIV/AIDS patients in 50 of the least developed nations as well.
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When the Minister of Health delivers her budget speech in Parliament today (Tuesday, June 5th) it is expected she will give the go-ahead for provinces to administer Nevirapine, the drug that helps prevent HIV positive pregnant women from passing the virus on to their babies. However, as Kerry Cullinan reports, the announcement has been all too slow in coming.
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Young Nkosi Johnson’€™s long and exhausting battle against AIDS is finally over. 12 year old Nkosi, one of the most inspiring AIDS ambassadors the world will ever see, died peacefully in his sleep at 5.40am this morning (Friday, June 1). Anso Thom reports.
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A few weeks before Nkosi Johnson collapsed and fell into a coma, he spent seven days on holiday in Cape Town. He stayed with his long time friends Anso Thom and Gerda Kruger and their son, Siya. Everywhere they went, from Cape Point to Camps Bay, Nkosi was recognised and greeted by people who told him of people they knew living with HIV/AIDS. As the vigil next to his bedside continues, Anso and Gerda have written a personal reflection of the impact this little boy has had on their lives.
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The National Council Against Smoking has fired the first salvo in the war against tobacco advertising by laying a formal complaint with the police after several shops at Johannesburg International Airport were found to be displaying logos and advertisements. Health-e reports on World No Tobacco Day…
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There is substantial research to show that in addition to diet and exercise, psycho-social factors play a significant role in in the cause ‘€“ and treatment ‘€“ of heart disease. Kerry Cullinan reports.
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Africa’€™s biggest killer disease could be stopped in its tracks if a new malaria vaccine for children proves successful in clinical trials which are due to begin soon in The Gambia.
Smoking, domestic violence, HIV, heart attacks, depression… All societies’ woes – many exacerbated by the stresses of globalisation – land up in the hands of doctors.But being a family doctor is often an isolating experience. Thus, the 16th World Congress of Family Doctors (WONCA) held last week in Durban was an opportunity for doctors to get out of their consulting rooms and in touch with new research and new ideas for treating patients. In many ways, the congress ‘€“ which attracted 2 288 delegates from 76 countries – was an assessment of the pulse rate of the world’€™s citizens.
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A medical research centre to study diseases that most affect Africa is in the final stages of being established at the University of Cape Town. The new institute will concentrate on a variety of diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria, major cancers and various genetic and metabolic disorders. It also hopes to reduce the “brain drain” by offering South African scientists a place to pursue top quality research.
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In the wake of the collapse of the court case brought by major pharmaceutical companies against the Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act, health minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang will meet some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies in London to discuss access to drugs and the implementation of the Act.
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Infectious diseases can be controlled in the world’€™s poorest countries. This is the message contained in a World Health Organisation (WHO) report ‘€“ “Health A Key to Prosperity”. The report names Uganda, Thailand and Senegal as national success stories in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Health-e reports on some of the success stories, many from Africa…