Contributor ReportsCancer Risk High as Smoking Surges in Africa
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Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Thu Dec 03 05:49:29 -0800 2009 | health-news
Medical experts say tobacco-related illnesses are becoming a serious health issue in Africa as a new report warns tobacco use may double in some parts of the continent during the next 12 years. The report, from the Global Smokefree Partnership,...
ReachAfrica: HIV Infections Decline Slowly in Sub-Saharan Region
Source: All Africa
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated Fri Nov 27 14:34:30 -0800 2009 | health-news
HIV Infections Decline Slowly in Sub-Saharan Region 25 November 2009 The rate of new HIV infections has slowly declined in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region remains the area of the world most heavily hit by the epidemic and it accounts...
HIV/AIDS Commitments to Women Often Unmet
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Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Mon Nov 23 17:16:02 -0800 2009 | health-news
AIDS Accountability International scorecard rates country responses to pandemic HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death and disease for women of reproductive age, according to health officials. A new report says much needs to be done to reverse that trend....
HIV test for Zuma
Source: I Africa
Pretoria :: South Africa | updated Tue Dec 01 04:31:57 -0800 2009 | health-news
It is a difficult decision to take," he said in a nationally televised speech to mark World Aids Day. "I know my status" "I am making arrangements for my own test...I will do another test soon," he said. "I urge...
GLOBAL: Progress on paediatric HIV not enough
Source: IRIN
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated Mon Nov 30 12:35:17 -0800 2009 | health-news
HIV-positive pregnant women globally receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to prevent them passing HIV to their children; up from 24 percent in 2006. South Africa, 91 percent in Namibia and 95 percent in Botswana. Other countries lagged behind: in Nigeria only...
Africa: PEPFAR and The Global Fund Collaborate to Treat 3.7 Million ...
Source: All Africa
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Tue Dec 01 14:15:26 -0800 2009 | health-news
The Global Fund Collaborate to Treat 3.7 Million Living with HIV/Aids 1 December 2009 press release The U.S.
Killer syndrome: The Aids denialists
Source: The Independent
East London :: South Africa | updated Mon Nov 30 20:58:36 -0800 2009 | health-news
A middle-aged man walks into an East London caf� and apologises for being late. With his clipped hair and bus-driver's uniform of thick overcoat, shirt, and branded tie, he looks like any other public service employee. But soon he delivers...
DDT the cause of intersex babies in Limpopo province in South Africa
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SheriaMwangala
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated Mon Oct 26 18:48:16 -0700 2009 | health-news
In last night's episode of Carte blanche, the M-net current affairs programme revealed shocking findings linking the pesticide DDT to intersex births. Date: 25 October 2009 07:00 Producer: Joy Summers Presenter: Bongani Bingwa Genre: Medical and Health There are few...
Charter for TB Care is in favour of doctors
Source: Scoop
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Tue Dec 08 14:37:18 -0800 2009 | health-news
This is not surprising to hear because despite of community-centric Global Stop TB Strategy and rising mandate for community engagement in TB programmes, there are healthcare providers like the one quoted above who still belong to old school where TB...
'Some have never seen condoms'
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Tue Dec 08 10:30:33 -0800 2009 | health-news
An Mpumalanga clinic that serves a population of less than 40 000 has reported that 70% of its patients tested positive for HIV. The spokesperson of the provincial Department of Human Settlements, Freddy Ngobe, said on Monday that the staff...
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