Contributor ReportsAfrica: 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...
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...
Cancer 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....
DDT the cause of intersex babies in Limpopo province in South Africa
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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...
UNICEF hails South Africa's HIV/AIDS strategy
Source: NewKerala
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sat Dec 05 03:58:09 -0800 2009 | health-news
South Africa�s adoption of new HIV treatment guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and making such services available at all health facilities demonstrates the country�s commitment to normalizing the virus as an integral part of primary health care...
Women's power to opt out
Source: News 24
Durban :: South Africa | updated Fri Dec 04 03:42:31 -0800 2009 | health-news
This is a grand week for rhetoric and red tape -- the red ribbon for Aids and the white ribbon for the 16 Days of Activism for no violence against women and children. I stopped subscribing to and putting on...
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