Human Resources

South Africa is so overburdened by physical illnesses that mental health continues to take a backseat

The South African Federation of Mental Health has called on the government to urgently act to ensure accessing mental becomes easier for South Africans. Speaking during the national dialogue on mental health on Monday, Bharti Patel of the South African…

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Breastfeeding: Setting the Record Straight

The Mail & Guardian newspaper recently printed two highly critical responses to Charlene Smith'€™s article on free medication and milk formula to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV (Mail & Guardian, January 26 '€“ Feb 1), but a letter sent to the newspaper by Professor Hoosen "Jerry" Coovadia, co-convenor of the AIDS 2000 Conference, Professor Anna Coutsoudis and other colleagues at the University of Natal went unpublished. Coutsoudis approached Health-e to clarify several key issues regarding HIV transmission and breast-feeding.
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Look back in anger?

The past 11 months have seen HIV/AIDS assume the spotlight in South Africa as never before. However, despite all the meetings, protests and discussions, people have continued to die from AIDS-related symptoms and the numbers of AIDS orphans and HIV positive babies have continued to climb. In this article, we take a month by month look at AIDS in South Africa in 2000.
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