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‘This is genocide’
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has accused a group of multinational pharmaceutical companies active in South Africa of conspiring against the state, the people of South Africa and the populations of developing countries - and of planning what amounts to mass murder.
"I am not using strong words; I am using appropriate words. This is genocide," Motsoaledi told the Mail & Guardian on Thursday, in response to a plan he described as a conspiracy of "satanic magnitude" a plan he called on all South Africans to fight "to the last drop of their blood".
Substance abuse worse than HIV
More people are dying or falling ill as a result of substance abuse and mental disorders than from HIV, TB and diabetes, according to a new worldwide study says dailymail.co.uk.
Researchers found that depressive disorders account for the largest proportion, leading to 40% of the worldwide death and disease burden, with girls and women over the age of 14 making up the majority...view the article
HIV puts a different spin on harm reduction
An article focusing on critiques of harm reduction could have introduced the aspect of HIV prevention to put a different spin on the issue and generate a more complex ‘debate’.
An article earlier this month in The Star (5 August 2013) discussed the controversial approach of harm reduction.
Gauteng’s fight against drugs intensifies
A R2 million campaign aimed at communities that report drug-related crimes will be launched in Johannesburg in a bid to intensify the fight against drugs in Gauteng.
Gauteng's community policing forum board chairman Andy Mashaile said the campaign will be launched on Thursday.
It will mobilise the public to expose criminals, making it easy for the police to arrest them.
Drug dealers ‘targeting SA youth’
Drug abuse could pose a bigger threat to South Africa's future than the Aids pandemic, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said yesterday. Speaking at the future Leaders Annual Youth Conference in Durban, he said the abuse of narcotics is costing the country R20 billion a year.ARV halves HIV among drug users
A trial in Thailand has shown that a daily dose of the antiretroviral (ARV)drug tenofovir reduces HIV incidence by nearly half among injecting drug-users, and even further if they adhere to the regimen.Youth urged to cut alcohol to benefit communities
Stop using alcohol as a way of celebrating. This was the plea from Deputy Minister for Performance Monitoring, Evaluation and Administration, Obed Bapela to young people ahead of Youth Day on June 16.Drugs are youths’ new foe
South African youth are facing a grave enemy - only this time it is not apartheid but the scourge of drug abuse, said the Deputy Minister of Performance, Monitoring, Evaluation and Administration, Obed Bapela at the launch of National Youth Month at the Hector Pieterson memorial in Soweto yesterday.Fear dodgy Indian Aids drugs have reached SA
Compromised Aids drugs may have reached South Africa after an Indian pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy, pleaded guilty to using fabricated data in manufacturing.FDA approval opens doors
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Adcock Ingram has joined an exclusive club of African drug-makers with a stamp of approval from the Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research of the US food and Drug Administration (FDA).Page 1 of 3 pages 1 2 3 >
