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Massive leap forward for HIV prevention 20.07.2010 Kerry Cullinan 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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The buck stops with hospital CEOs 19.07.2010 Kerry Cullinan 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. Read more
SA has lots to show off in Vienna 18.07.2010 Khopotso Bodibe 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). Read more
Millennium Development Goals count-down Living with AIDS # 439 15.07.2010 Khopotso Bodibe 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? Read more
Stigma still rife in mental health 13.07.2010 Ayanda Yeni 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. Read more
Nurses can also do ART Living with AIDS # 438 09.07.2010 Khopotso Bodibe 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. Read more
Circumcision clamp slammed 08.07.2010 Anso Thom 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. Read more
“I am just an ordinary woman…” 08.07.2010 Dr. Eve 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.” Read more
Cuban medicine 08.07.2010 Lungi Langa Newly graduated doctors who trained in Cuba have set their sights on improving South Africa’s public health system. Read more
Hospice helps soldiers 05.07.2010 Lungi Langa 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. Read more
World Soccer’s Hidden HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the 2010 World Cup 30.06.2010 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 Read more
Ubhejane is not registered 29.06.2010 The Department of Health has stated that Ubhejane is not registered as a medicine. The MCC has not yet publicly responded to the article. Read more
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