Prince Harry calls for global action against HIV
Prince Harry has told global leaders that HIV remains among the most pressing and urgent challenges facing the world.
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Teacher photographed assaulting pupils at Limpopo high school
Ongoing allegations of brutal corporal punishment happening regularly at a Limpopo high school are to be addressed this week after a disgruntled pupil took pictures of a teacher beating pupils with a piece of piping.
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Stem HIV deaths in very sick patients – study
HIV medication saves lives but not when it’s taken too late – especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Access to treatment still a crisis
Global AIDS gains are in danger of being rolled back unless donors step up their contributions, getting treatment to 20 million HIV positive people currently excluded.
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Code red: AIDS activists march for treatment for all
The world should not talk about the end of AIDS while 20 million people don't have treatment, said activists who handed a memorandum to the UN's Ban Ki-Moon in Durban on Monday.
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Marching for increased AIDS funding
Civil society groups took to the streets of Durban today , a few hours before the opening of 21st International AIDS Conference, pleading for governments to increase funding for HIV.
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Curse of the ‘blessers’
Health minister launches plan to keep girls in school - and out of the clutches of abusive sugar daddies.
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Children benefit from ‘power of prevention’ – but not adults
HIV infection rates amongst children in eastern and southern Africa are steadily declining.
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Generic applications flood the MCC
The Medicine Control Council should limit generic applications to seven per innovator medicine to cut the backlog that is blocking cheaper, better drugs from entering the SA market. By Henry Leng
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Fighting illegal abortion clinics
The Limpopo Department of Health is fighting to shut down a growing number of illegal abortion clinics in the Vhembe area – some targeting students specifically with 50 percent discount offers.
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Limpopo gets first breast milk bank
Limpopo mothers have welcomed the opening of the first breast milk bank in the province, believing it will help to save babies.
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Platinum status for new clinic
Two new clinics are transforming the lives of rural communities in Mpumalanga, where people no longer have had to travel long distances to get medical attention
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Health-e News intern wins a study tour to US
Health-e News intern Thabo Molelekwa has been selected, along with three other journalists, to be part of a study tour to the United States later this year.
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Counting the costs of flu
The flu season can see you coughing up about R4000 in costs and the South African economy loses more than R2-billion because of colds and flu every year
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Pooling of resources for NHI could lower cost of universal access.
On Tuesday, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi addressed the media along with members of the Board of As the debate on National Health Insurance (NHI) funding continues, the minister of health has come out in response to the criticism over the high cost associated with rolling out universal health care in South Africa.
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