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The United Kingom has donated 42 million condoms to South Africa. Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has welcomed the donation announced by the British Minister for International
Development (DFID) on Tuesday. Health department spokesperson Fidel Hadebe confirmed that the announcement was made at the high level meeting held in London yesterday aimed at re-energising global efforts to tackle HIV and AIDS. Hadebe said the donation would further boost the country's readiness to provide for the healthcare needs of thousands of soccer fans expected to come into the country during the
month-long Fifa World Cup.
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Resources / Reports
World leaders must keep their promise to the more than ten million in need of ARVs Download PDF |
Estimating the Financial Cost of the NHI Plan This final note is a culmination of the information gained from the research conducted on aspects such as supply constraints, changes in demand and utilisation, issues of rationing, burden of disease, etc. In this note we calculate the overall cost of implementing a plan with the essential features of the current NHI proposal. Download PDF
Financing HIV/Aids in South Africa and role of major donors A Meeting to inform Council for Foreign Relations
January 2010. Download PDF
Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition: A survival and development priority The first Millennium Development Goal calls for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, and its achievement is crucial for national progress and development. Failing to achieve this goal jeopardizes the achievement of other MDGs, including goals to achieve universal primary education (MDG 2), reduce child mortality (MDG 4) and improve maternal health (MDG 5). Download PDF
TAG 2009 Report on Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends, 2005–2008 In its fourth year of publication, this report highlights the deficiencies in tuberculosis (TB) research and the critical need for increased funding. The year-on-year data collection continues to create an evidence base with which to analyze the resources available, as well as the gaps in funding needed to meet the Stop TB Partnership and Millennium Development Goals to reduce TB incidence and death by 50% by 2015 relative to 1990 levels and to eliminate TB as a global public health threat by 2050. Download PDF
Global Tuberculosis Control WHO Report 2009 This report is the 13th annual report on global control of tuberculosis (TB) published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in a series that started in 1997. Its main purpose is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and to report on progress in controlling the disease at global, regional and country levels, in the context of global targets set for 2015. Download PDF
What countries need: Investments needed for 2010 targets The global economic crisis has forced
governments, civil society and even individuals
to re-examine their investments and find
innovative and often bold measures to
ameliorate the situation. Download PDF
Male circumcision: Global trends and determinants of prevalence, safetey & acceptability Male circumcision is one of the oldest and most common
surgical procedures worldwide, and is undertaken
for many reasons: religious, cultural, social
and medical. There is conclusive evidence from
observational data and three randomized controlled
trials that circumcised men have a significantly lower
risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Demand for safe, affordable male circumcision is expected to increase rapidly, and country-level decision-makers need information about the sociocultural and medical determinants of circumcision, as well as risks of the procedure, in the context of comprehensive HIV prevention programming. Download PDF
2008 antenatal HIV and syphilis survey Report South Africa has almost two decades (1990–2008) of good sentinel surveillance data that assists in
monitoring the HIV epidemic trends in the 15–49 years old female population. At the end of 2007,
the estimated prevalence of HIV in the general adult population was 17.5 %. The Government has
responded to the HIV and AIDS epidemic by facilitating a multi-sectoral approach to implement
and monitor appropriate treatment, prevention, care and support interventions. The Ministry of
Health has played a leading role in these efforts, including the provision of strategic information for
monitoring the magnitude of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Download PDF
TAG 2009 Pipeline Report This year’s Pipeline report shows, in brief, a lull in anti-HIV drug development, an alarming stasis in hepatitis B treatment research, renewed activity (after a gap of almost 40 years) in TB drug development, agonizing slow and incremental progress in TB diagnostics research, very preliminary human studies of several new TB vaccine candidates, a back-to-basics mood in the HIV vaccine research community, renewed hopes for efficacy in microbicide and pre-exposure prophylaxis, and no dramatic developments in the areas of immune-based therapies or therapeutic vaccines for HIV. Download PDF Next 10 |
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