This report details key activities in 2011 that support IAVI's mission to develop a safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccine for use throughout the world. Navigate to a specific section of the report below, download the entire report, view partner profiles and watch a message from IAVI CEO Margaret McGlynn. http://www.iavi.org/Pages/Annual-Progress-Report-2011.aspx#
Health Policy and Planning blends such individual specialities as epidemiology, health and development economics, management and social policy, planning and social anthropology into a lively academic mix that constantly stimulates and keeps readers abreast of global health, focusing on issues of particular relevance to low and middle income countries. http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
This report focuses on just some of the many factors that hamper the scaling up of DR-TB treatment – the limited availability and high cost of quality-assured medicines for resistant strains of the disease, owing to an insecure market and insufficient demand; and the research questions that remain unsolved with existing medicines.
The HIV sentinel surveillance data has helped to map the epidemic and monitor HIV infection trends in the country and has served as an advocacy tool, resulting in the mobilization of partners, resources and development of innovative approaches by the national response to HIV and AIDS.
Seasoned health professionals are familiar with the example of a busload of passengers, each instructing the driver to go in a different direction and resulting in a stationary bus as the driver cannot decide which instruction to follow.
The SAHR 2012/13 provides information on selected issues that are relevant to the six building blocks of health systems strengthening, the Negotiated Service Delivery Agreement and primary health care re-engineering.
SOSHANGUVE. – More than 300 Soshanguve residents recently took part in a campaign, called Raising Roots, that gives parents, grandparents and caregivers all the advice and knowledge they need to raise healthier, happier children.
The risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) increases depending on both the number of cigarettes smoked a day and the number of years a person has smoked, according to research reported in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy.
On the eve of the high-level Global Vaccines Summit hosted by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that high prices for new vaccines could put developing countries in the precarious situation of not being able to afford to fully vaccinate their children in the future.
GERT SIBANDE. – In April all eyes were on Mpumalanga as the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) held its first plenary meeting for the year here.
MEDIA RELEASE: This is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its “Invest in the future. Defeat malaria” campaign, says Dr Pete Vincent of Netcare Travel Clinics and Medicross Family Medical and Dental Centres. Read more here.
MEDIA RELEASE: Drinking one (or one extra)* 336ml serving size of sugar-sweetened soft drink a day can be enough to increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 22%, a new study suggests.
MEDIA RELEASE: Scientists in China have confirmed for the first time that the influenza A H7N9 virus has transmitted from birds—specifically, chicken at a wet poultry market—to humans, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet. Since its…
VHEMBE. – With news about the gruesome rape and murder of Anene Booysen still fresh in the country’s psyche, news about the gang rape of a six-year-old girl shook the community of Mulodi Village in Limpopo where the crime took place.
TSHWANE. - The staff and patients at Kgabo Health Centre in Winterveld are unhappy with the conditions at the facility ' the staff complain that do not receive support from the regional office while patients are concerned about the long waiting periods.
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