The Lancet calls for tobacco control
The latest edition of The Lancet journal has an editorial calling for tobacco control in developing countries to be stepped up in an effort to impact on the cancer incidence.
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South African gold mines a ‘TB factory’
The gold mining sector came under heavy criticism from clinicians, ex-miners, advocacy groups and the Minister of Health for the TB crisis it faces at the recent South African TB Conference.
Cancer finally at the top of the world agenda
National Vice President for Global Health at the American Cancer Society, Nathan Grey answers important questions pertaining to the recent UN Resolution on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
Green light for finger prick
An amendment to the Health Act allowing counselors to draw blood for HIV testing using a finger prick device will see more people being tested.
Integrate TB-HIV services!
Seven out of 10 South Africans with TB also have HIV, yet they have to get their TB and HIV treatment in different clinics.
Spotlight on vaccines
This year's AVAC Report is the first to be published in the context of clinical trial evidence that an AIDS vaccine is possible. Turning the Page reviews the broader state of'and debates around'AIDS vaccines and other HIV prevention research.
TB trial splits HIV community
One of South Africa's most eminent HIV scientists has been accused of causing 'preventable deaths' during a clinical trial he conducted on people co-infected with HIV and TB.
Cancer will kill 13.2m by 2030
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) this week released GLOBOCAN 2008, a new database which provides the most accurate assessment of the global cancer burden. It shows that Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.
Saving mothers and children
The death of a child's mother massively reduces the child's chances of survival to age 10 years, whereas the father's death has a negligible effect, a study on child survival in Bangladesh has found.
Integration of TB and HIV services ‘not rocket science’
Despite government promises, there are no guidelines on how TB and HIV services can be integrated - and this delay is killing patients
Kicking the nicotine butt
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has launched the CANSA e-kick Butt programme which aims to see nicotine addicts giving up the habit.
Annie Lennox spreads HIV goodwill
The world renowned Scottish singer songwriter and women's activist Annie Lennox has been named as International Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Anti-gay legislation could ruin health efforts ‘ activists
Health and human rights groups have warned that discrimination and homophobic legislation hampers the success of health initiatives.
Piot heads for London
Former UNAIDS chief Peter Piot has been appointed Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a research-led postgraduate centre of excellence in public health, international health and tropical medicine.
Rich nations taking health away from poor Living with AIDS # 434
Millions of AIDS patients in Africa will face severe suffering and death if donor nations and organisations continue to back-track on their commitment to fund AIDS treatment programmes, warns Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).