2009-07-03 03:33:55am

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Made in Africa
03.07.2009

text 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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Free State - First no ARVs, now no condoms
02.07.2009 Anso Thom

text The Treatment Action Campaign has reported massive condom stockouts and shortages in the beleaguered Free State.
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Keeping tabs on the doc strike
02.07.2009

text Health-e will be posting updates on the doctor strike as it becomes available. Click here to the see the latest developments around the strike.
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SA nurses want to leave profession
02.07.2009 Kerry Cullinan

text 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
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Motsoaledi shares his priorities
01.07.2009

text 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.
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Shisana on NHI
30.06.2009 Olive Shisana

text The issue of the need to establish a national health insurance system is not a new phenomenon. By Dr Olive Shisana
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HIV community mourns Steve Andrews
29.06.2009 Anso Thom

text 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.
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Government's OSD offer is anti-rural
29.06.2009 Bernard Gaede

text The latest pay offer reduces the rural allowance for doctors without explantion.
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Tracking the MDGs
27.06.2009 Phakamile Magamdela

audio 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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