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SOUTH AFRICA: WANTED - 4,000 doctors

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org

Monday, July 14, 2008

Withmore South African doctors now working abroad than in the country'sailing public health sector, the government needs to start...

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SOUTH AFRICA: Current HIV treatment models not good enough

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PLUS NEWS http://plusnews.org

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Morethan 400,000 HIV-positive South Africans have begun antiretroviraltreatment (ART) since the government launched its programme in 2004.But this...

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SOUTH AFRICA: Cholera in Soweto

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IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The authoritieshave yet to isolate the source of cholera that killed two residents ofSoweto, South Africa's largest township, on the southwestern...

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Critical health care fails to reach most women and children in high mortality countries despite gains in fighting child killer diseases

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UNICEF http://www.unicef.org

Monday, April 21, 2008

World’s health leaders andparliamentarians convene to address accelerated action to reduce maternal andchild deathsLeading global health experts,...

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GLOBAL: Looking in the mirror at HIV

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PlusNews http://www.plusnews.org

Monday, April 07, 2008

It’s house music. It’s dinner, drinks and a movie. It’s first dates, first loves and first heart breaks. It’s being young - and it’s also about HIV,...

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SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: No documents? No treatment

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Linda* was already sick when she arrived in Johannesburg from Zimbabwe, but she did not know her HIV status. After months of sleeping rough in a park...

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SOUTH AFRICA: Prison-like hospitals for drug-resistant TB patients

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PlusNews

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Another hospital breakout in South Africa by drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients desperate to spend the holidays with their families has some...

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SOUTH AFRICA: Poor tracking means patients lose out

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PlusNews

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Inadequate patient tracking at one of South Africa's largest antiretroviral (ARV) distribution sites, has led to many patients disappearing from the...

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SOUTH AFRICA: When microbicide trials go wrong - Part 2

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PlusNews

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

It's an overcast Thursday morning in the port city of Durban, on South Africa's east coast, and some of the former participants in a microbicide...

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SOUTH AFRICA: Hospital project attempts to revive Johannesburg inner city

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PlusNews

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

A new focus on healthcare in South Africa's most densely populated inner-city suburb, is to help regenerate a community hard hit by HIV/AIDS, poverty...

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