The good news from the International AIDS Conference in Vienna that a microbicide gel tested in South Africa for the prevention of HIV infection is an ironically painful reminder that there is an urgent need for effective preventative measures to reduce new HIV infections.
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Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has cautioned those attending the International AIDS conference that backtracking on funding for HIV by donors could threaten the treatment success rates. Read his speech here.
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In Vulindlela, the winter grass is yellow and an icy wind blows off the white-coated Drakensberg. But in the small collection of park homes that make up the local clinic and research site, there is warmth in people’s faces and voices.
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In one of the biggest advances in HIV prevention in decades, a vaginal gel containing an antiretroviral drug has been proven to protect almost four out of 10 women from HIV.
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At a week-long international summit in Johannesburg recently, men and women were challenged to step up the fight on gender-based violence.
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Hospital CEOs will be held accountable for failing systems at their institutions, KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo told the heads of the seven major hospitals in eThekwini on Friday.
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KwaZulu-Natal is committed to a massive male circumcision drive using all available medical methods including the controversial Tara Klamp, according to Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo.
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A New England Journal of Medicine study has revealed that early initiation of antiretroviral treatment could reduce death rates and the Tuberculosis incidence.
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An upbeat Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says this year South Africa has something different to show the world regarding its response to AIDS at the 18th International AIDS Conference, which opened in Vienna, Austria, today (Sunday, 18/07/2010).
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AVAC Report warns promising developments in biomedical HIV prevention could be undermined by current conditions of the global AIDS response.
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In 2000, the world’s leaders committed themselves to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals to make our planet a healthier place to live in by the year 2015. Two-thirds of the deadline has already passed. Is the world succeeding in its commitments, for instance, to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases which are endemic in countries such as South Africa?
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Discrimination against people with mental disorders makes it difficult to reintegrate them into society. Psychiatric health specialists blame this on the lack of understanding of mental illness and not knowing how to deal with someone who is mentally ill. In this report, we meet someone who has experienced first-hand such discrimination.
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South African nurses are just as competent as doctors in monitoring patients on antiretroviral therapy. This is according to results of a four-year long study published recently in the respected international medical journal, The Lancet.
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HIV doctors and activists have slammed a male circumcision clamp that is being aggressively marketed in South Africa and the rest of the continent with a small study showing that it is much more painful that the surgical route and has more adverse events.
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Josephine stepped up to the podium, looked out at the 100 women and a few men, and began her introduction with these words:”I am just an ordinary woman. And I survived cancer.”
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Newly graduated doctors who trained in Cuba have set their sights on improving South Africa’s public health system.
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Ubhejane is not registered with the Medicines Control Council despite such claims in recent newspaper reports.
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The Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) and the South African Department of Defence have signed an agreement that will see members of the defence force receiving better palliative care.
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The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Sisonke have launched a helpline to give sex workers a voice.
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Public sector doctors continue to be in short supply in South Africa as many leave the health system because of poor working conditions, bad management and low pay.
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SECTION27 has called for transparency and fairness in this year’s Antiretroviral (ARV) tendering process as invitations for bidders are soon to be announced.
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OPINION: "I've written this article to argue that FIFA, as the world's football authority, has an ethical responsibility for social action, in fact, it owes the soccer-playing world - effectively all of humanity - a massive sustainable and measurably successful longitudinal social project starting from THIS World Cup, a moral imperative on which millions of lives will hang in the balance. By Richard Witzig
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As football fans from around the world arrive in South Africa to cheer on their favourite team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we must not lose sight of one unwelcome guest—HIV. By Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director
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The Department of Health has stated that Ubhejane is not registered as a medicine. The MCC has not yet publicly responded to the article.
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Work-place peer educators are a unique invaluable resource that the country has in its response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, but their role is not sufficiently exploited. This is according to a book, titled “Changing the course of AIDS”.
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