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#WorldDisabilityDay: Health Department is denying disabled people their basic rights

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#WorldDisabilityDay: Health Department is denying disabled people their basic rights

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The theme for World Aids Day is “know your status”. EPA

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Self-testing: a potentially powerful tool for fighting HIV

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Babies born to mums with HIV face higher risks even though they're HIV negative

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(DUREX)RED donation fights HIV/AIDS through Global Fund

HIV/AIDS

(DUREX)RED donation fights HIV/AIDS through Global Fund

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The WHO recommends testing for HIV every 6 to 12 months. Shutterstock

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Overcoming the real - and perceived - barriers to HIV testing

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North West health officials placed on suspension

28 Nov 2018

Mashudu Mphafudi, director in the finance & banking practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

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Private healthcare is ripe for transformation

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The life expectancy improvements in sub-Saharan Africa vary between men and women. Shutterstock

Noncommunicable diseases

Lifestyle diseases could scupper Africa's rising life expectancy

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Schalk van der Merwe, Rural Hand Bikes

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Professor Thuli Madonsela and FMHS Dean, Professor Jimmy Volmink

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Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo:GCIS

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Joan van Dyk 21 Nov 2018

MediFin announces its Top Loyalty Partners for 2018

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Healthcare industry needs collaboration to curb fraud waste and abuse

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In this 2012 photo, grandmother Janet Kitheka, 63, collects her adopted “granddaughter” Lucy, 13, at the end of the school day in the yard of the Hot Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their children to HIV in Kenya.

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There already exist some promising new antibiotic therapies, and more are in the pipeline. However, our economic model prevents researchers from moving them out onto the market.
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New drug regimen to treat lymphatic filariasis

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Victoria Gibbon 15 Nov 2018

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The life expectancy improvements in sub-Saharan Africa vary between men and women. Shutterstock

Noncommunicable diseases

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New drug regimen to treat lymphatic filariasis

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Scientists analysing data at the South-South Malaria Research Partnership project laboratory in Kenya. Flora Mutere-Okuku

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In this 2012 photo, grandmother Janet Kitheka, 63, collects her adopted “granddaughter” Lucy, 13, at the end of the school day in the yard of the Hot Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their children to HIV in Kenya.

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There already exist some promising new antibiotic therapies, and more are in the pipeline. However, our economic model prevents researchers from moving them out onto the market.
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Victoria Gibbon 15 Nov 2018

Putting the lid on medical aid fraud

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X-ray of the lungs in a 5-year-old child who has pneumonia. Shutterstock

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Minors, blood transfusions and the court

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First-aid training benefits community and UCT medical students

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10 tricky terms - Know your medical aid speak

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