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2012-01-28 09:09:35am
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A BRAND NEW local website, aimed at assisting alcoholics and drug addicts, was recently launched by the Montrose Foundation. Find Help, Find Hope offers help for addicts, their loved ones, parents and youth, with a focus on providing practical ways of getting help for addiction.
After a period of substantial decline, the global abortion rate has stalled, according to new research from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization (WHO). This plateau coincides with a slowdown, documented by the United Nations, in contraceptive uptake. The researchers also found that nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, and almost all unsafe abortions occur in the developing world. The study, Induced Abortion: Incidence and Trends Worldwide from 1995 to 2008, by Gilda Sedgh et al., was published online today by The Lancet.
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Gauteng Health drags payments to service providers 27.01.2012 Ayanda Mkhwanazi  Some companies that provide services to Gauteng’s public hospitals have been left high and dry as the Gauteng Health Department drags its feet in settling outstanding payments. So far, the Department has paid up to R600 million to service providers, a figure that the South African Medical Device Industry Association, SAMED, says is a drop in the ocean.
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Rural hospitals buckle as foreign docs delayed
25.01.2012 Anso Thom  Rural hospitals in South Africa are facing a serious doctor shortage in 2012 as a result of delays in registering foreign qualified doctors and the failure to place community service doctors in underserved hospitals.
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| | Dagga, hubbly could give you cancer
25.01.2012 Smoking tobacco, using a hubbly bubbly pipe and smoking dagga (marijuana), puts young people at high risk of developing oral- and oro-pharyngeal cancers. This message was highlighted by the South African Dental Association (SADA) at a press briefing in Cape Town this week.
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TB & Me
Ever wonder what life would be like living in quarantine for months or taking more than 20 pills a day in your battle against a killer disease that most people don’t know or care about? TB & ME provides patients with an online platform to tell the world in their own words about living with MDR-TB. Patients living around the world will share their experiences, highlighting MDR-TB as a global problem in need of serious attention. TB & ME is also a place where patients can share their experiences with others who might be in the same position.
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National Health Insurance
UPDATE: Find the latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference now available here
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The inspiring stories of two rural youth who overcame the impossible in order to serve and save their communities. 
People living with HIV have a critical role to play in preventing new HIV infections. A new strategy aims to enlist the help of HIV-infected people in preventing the spread of HIV. 
