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Call for entries: South African Health Review Cover Student Photography Contest
HST
2008-07-04

The Health Systems Trust (HST) is pleased to announce the 2008 South African Health Review Cover Photography Contest.
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TB plan has a gap between talk and action
PlusNews
2008-07-04

TB is South Africa's leading natural cause of death. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang opened South Africa's first national tuberculosis (TB) conference this week with some welcome good news: her department is to acquire technology that will reduce the time it takes to diagnose drug-resistant TB from as long as four months to less than a...
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Addicts getting high on AIDS meds
Health24
2008-07-04

South African AIDS patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high, the provincial health department said Wednesday.
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Is there a better way to say 'opportunistic infection'?
Iolhivaids
2008-07-04

Cape Town - After more than a quarter of a century of the AIDS pandemic, there is an extensive lexicon of jargon associated with HIV infection, but this has not made it any easier for doctors to communicate with their patients.
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Military to lead the way in male circumcision
PlusNews
2008-07-04

To keep the army active, circumcision will be gradual. The soldiers in the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) will be the first men to benefit from a government policy to use male circumcision as a tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to senior health officials.
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More funds needed to fight HIV/AIDS
Manelisi Dubase, SABCnews.com
2008-06-27

AIDS activists say the fight against HIV/AIDS is being impeded by a shortage of health workers and limited funds. Hundreds of them marched to Capitol Hill to demand more money to fund HIV/AIDS projects.
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Men do want to test for HIV NGO
Mabutho Ngcobo, Health-e
2008-06-27

Men are generally known to be reluctant to test for HIV. But statistics collected by New Start, a non governmental organization working in getting people to test for HIV, suggest the opposite.
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Aspen wins ARV tender
IOL
2008-06-27

Aspen has won a significant portion of the tender for the supply of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to the department of health, the pharmaceutical manufacturer announced on Thursday.
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Dagga not effective painkiller
Health24.com
2008-06-27

Oral cannabis, a form of medical marijuana, was ineffective in treating certain types of acute pain and actually increased sensitivity to some other kinds of discomfort, say researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
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Nurses to qualify for a salary after a year
IOL
2008-06-27

Community service nurses will be paid as registered nurses only after a year of doing such service, the Health Department said on Wednesday.
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Medicine regulator cannot keep up
Tamar Kahn, Business Day
2008-06-27

The registrar of medicines, Mandisa Hela, admitted to MPs yesterday that the Medicines Control Council could not cope with its workload, and was in dire need of an overhaul.
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Cholera alert after KZN floods
SABCnews.com
2008-06-27

Health authorities in KwaZulu-Natal have put in place precautionary measures after a suspected cholera outbreak on the south coast.
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