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Research released earlier this week by the Medical Research Council (MRC) details extraordinarily high levels of gender violence in South Africa and highlights the urgent need to strengthen the justice system and to change the attitudes of South African men (especially young men and boys) towards women. These findings are cause for deep concern and urgent action but they are not surprising; previous research in other parts of South Africa has found similar results.Visit www.genderjustice.org.za
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Made in Africa 03.07.2009  Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)has called for a single African Drug Agency to ensure the sustainability and availability of quality lifesaving drugs so desperately needed on the continent. Sidebe directed his call at leaders meeting at the African Union summit in Libya.
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SA nurses want to leave profession
02.07.2009 Kerry Cullinan Two-thirds of SA nurses surveyed want to leave the profession within five years, according to research released at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) congress
Read more | | Motsoaledi shares his priorities
01.07.2009 Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi shared his priorities during his first budget speech this week. Urgently increasing the number of women receiving PMTCT and implementing NHI are just some of the issues highlighted by Motsoaledi.
Read more | Shisana on NHI
30.06.2009 Olive Shisana The issue of the need to establish a national health insurance system is not a new phenomenon. By Dr Olive Shisana
Read more | | HIV community mourns Steve Andrews
29.06.2009 Anso Thom The HIV community is reeling from the death of Cape Town doctor Steve Andrews (39) – activist and people’s doctor and one of the top HIV physicians in the country. Andrews, personal physician to many HIV activists, died in his sleep on Friday night.
Read more | Government's OSD offer is anti-rural
29.06.2009 Bernard Gaede The latest pay offer reduces the rural allowance for doctors without explantion.
Read more | | Tracking the MDGs
27.06.2009 Phakamile Magamdela  While South Africa has made some progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), mental health and poverty remain major challenges, according to public hearings on the MDGs hosted by the SA Human Rights Commission.
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National Health Insurance
Health-e will for the next few weeks publish opinion pieces from various stakeholders and experts on National Health Insurance.
Anso Thom sets the scene with the first contribution with Dr Jonathan Broomberg, Discovery Health's head of strategy and risk management to follow.
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