Help for positive job hunters
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - Customers who come into Matseliso Lebakae's shop in Maseru, capital of Lesotho, to buy nutritional supplements, can also browse for an employee or handyman services.
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Doctors’ strike spreads ahead of crucial meeting
Public sector doctors are preparing for a national strike should government fail to table satisfactory salary proposals at today'€™s (Friday 24th) crucial bargaining council meeting.
Taking testing to the people
BRAZZAVILLE: (PlusNews) - Seated at his cluttered desk in the offices of Congo's National AIDS Council (CNLS), Franck Fortuné Mboussou is a very happy man. In a country where barely 10 percent of the female population has ever been tested for HIV, the organisation finally has enough money to buy a mobile testing unit.
Drug shortages raise resistance risk
GULU: (PlusNews) - People living with HIV in Uganda's northern region are facing critical shortages of essential medicines.
Dr Paul Onek, director of health services in Gulu District, said supplies of malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs had all run out.
"We last received TB drugs in January for only 400 TB patients."
OPINION: Why Zuma’s Cabinet needs Hogan
When ANC President and likely president of the country, Jacob Zuma, allocates Cabinet posts, he should try to reward competence not cronies.
Growing epidemic among MSM Living with AIDS # 385
Studies conducted in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Soweto show that there is a higher HIV prevalence rate amongst men who have sex with men.
Zim collapse a threat to SA AIDS programme ‘€“ Hogan
Drug resistant HIV resulting from the collapse of Zimbabwe'€™s health system will undermine success of South Africa'€™s HIV/AIDS programme, according to Health Minister Barbara Hogan.
Government adds new vaccine in child immunisation programme
As from April, children under the age of five will receive free immunisation against pneumococcal diseases, which cause infections such as pneumonia, as part of the government'€™s revised Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI).
Healthy election promises?
Health issues feature prominently in all political parties'€™ election manifestos '€“ an indication that our sickly public health system is a great concern to voters.
Concern over AIDS spending Living with AIDS #384
In a rare debate, political parties made public their stance on a range of issues relating to the treatment of AIDS and HIV prevention. Fears emerged that the current global economic crisis will have an impact on how South Africa responds to the epidemic in the future.
FS new budget allocation uninspiring
Patients in the Free State were recently denied AIDS treatment because of a lack of funds. But the National Treasury'€™s new allocation towards the province'€™s HIV and AIDS expenditure for the 2009 '€“ 2010 financial year, which begins in April, is R83 million short. Now the province'€™s head of health is already talking about restricting access to antiretrovirals.
Suffer the people Living with AIDS # 383
National Treasury'€™s insufficient budget allocation to the Free State for the 2008-2009 financial year and the provincial Department of Health'€™s failure to raise emergency funds to cover the short-fall have had a direct impact on patient care.
ARV Moratorium had devastating effects in Free State
The controversial moratorium imposed by the Free State Health Department on the provision of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to new AIDS patients, has hit patients and their families hard.
Free State making little progress
Less than 600 patients have started antiretroviral treatment since the Free State province lifted the moratorium on treatment and the waiting list of 15 000 grows daily.
Free State AIDS patients in the dark about services Living with AIDS Programme 382
While the Free State Health Department maintains that last November'€™s moratorium preventing about 15 000 new patients from getting antiretroviral treatment has been lifted, patients and civil society organisations paint a different picture.