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Tag: “healthcare”

Nurses have to make do with little

Luphisi Clinic on the outskirts of Nelspruit has been without essential medicines for almost a year.
Continue reading | 18 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: clinic, doh, healthcare, sowetan

Aids behemoth slain

Golly, that was a close shave! Just as we should have watched a holocaust of death from Aids, South Africans seem to have nonchalantly pulled off another of their famous miracles, this time slaying a health dragon that was supposed to wipe the floor with us.
Continue reading | 18 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: healthcare, hiv education, the citizen

Modified HIV virus saves a life

New York - US doctors say they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukemia by pioneering the use of an unlikely ally: a modified form of the HIV virus.
Continue reading | 13 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: children, healthcare, hiv breakthroughs, the citizen

Sir Ian living with cancer

Sir Ian McKellen, 73, has been battling prostate cancer for "six or seven years". The star often fears it "could be the end of the road" when he goes for an HIV test, but says he now lives happily with the potentially life-threatening disease. He said: "You do gulp when you hear the news. It's like when you go for an HIV test, you go, 'arghhh, is this the end of the road?"...read the full article
Continue reading | 13 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: healthcare, hiv testing

Mzansi women are google stars

This has been an exciting and rough year for entertainment and other celebs in Mzansi!
Continue reading | 12 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: daily sun, healthcare, lesego motsepe

HIV rate not dropping

The 2011 National Antenatal Sentinel HIV and Syphilis Prevalence Survey was released yesterday (10/12/12).
Continue reading | 11 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: doh, healthcare, sowetan, the new age, the times

Nurse sells clinic’s ARVs!

Security guard Anna Moukangwe (32) said no to a R45 000 bribe - and reported what she had seen.
Continue reading | 10 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: arvs, clinic, daily sun, healthcare

Circumcision reduces many risks

To some it is a rite of passage that marks the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood, To others it is something that needs to be done for medical reasons.
Continue reading | 7 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: circumcision, healthcare, mail&guardian;, mmc

Desire to help HIV positive patients

HIV-Aids caregiver Dikeledi Manosa's determination to help people living with the disease is unquestionable.
Continue reading | 7 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: healthcare, hiv awareness, sowetan, women

Our health system is getting better

If there is one outstanding success story of the post-2009 administration, it is the story of South Africa's remarkable improvement in life expectancy. The incoming administration post-Mangaung needs to draw lessons from that experience.
Continue reading | 7 December 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: aaron motsoaledi, healthcare, life expectancy, the new age