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Current Feed ContentSOUTH AFRICA: Thousands of lives lost in treatment delaysJOHANNESBURG Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - A new study estimates that more than 330,000 HIV-positive South Africans lost their lives between 2000 and 2005 as a direct result of government delays in rolling out a treatment programme. The report by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health was published in November in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). The researchers attributed the deaths to government policies that blocked the distribution of...Boost for Presidential Treatment ProgrammeDr Tamsir Mbowe, director general of the President ‘s Treatment Programme and director of Medical Services, yesterday received medical assortments on behalf of President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, at a ceremony held at the newly constructed Serrekunda Hospital. The items were donated by Jan and Didy Steenhuis from the Future in our Hands in Holland and the Kairaba Pharmaceutical. Presenting the gifts, Jan Steenhuis, co-founder of The Future in our Hands, said the donation was as a result of an...Another boost for President’s treatment programmeDr Malick Njie, secretary of state for Health and Social Welfare, yesterday, recieved, on behalf of the President’s Treatment Programme, hospital beds and other valuable materials from the St George’s Guilds - The Gambia Project in Denmark at a presentation ceremony held at the Serrekunda General Hospital in Kanifing. St George’s Guilds - The Gambia Project in Denmark is an organisation comprising of retired scouts and volunteers in collaboration with The Gambia Boden Powel and Guilds... |
