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Sex workers want legal trade

Sex workers in Durban welcomed the call by the Commission for Gender Equality for the decriminalisation of sex work.

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Gay men’s HIV battle hit by stigma

Stigma and discrimination have contributed to donor neglect in the fight against HIV among gay men.

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Public HIV tests for MPs?

Lawmakers could find themselves having to undergo public HIV tests if Parliament heeds a call by the health minister.

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File photo: In a sign of the intense public concern surrounding H7N9, people in China are making a record number of online searches for 'bird flu'.

The ghost of bird flu past haunts China
April 10 2013 at 14:16

China has earned praise from scientists for its handling of an outbreak of a deadly new bird flu. But some still have their doubts.

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'Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined.'

Air pollution scourge underestimated - UN
April 10 2013 at 14:13

Air pollution kills far more people than Aids and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, says the UN.

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Housewives hold their babies while waiting for a free paediatric check-up at a local government health centre in Manila. At least 30 Western Cape children have died and thousands have been hospitalised in the past four months due to diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea, the silent killer strikes in Cape
April 10 2013 at 09:33

Of more than 22 000 children treated in the Western Cape, 30 have died in the last four months, says expert.

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( The pill that was launched by Minister Motsoaledi at Phidisong Clinic in Ga Rankuwa ) Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi at the launch of the Fixed-Dose Combination antiretroviral pill at Phidisong Clinic in Ga-Rankuwa.08/04/2013

State’s new single-dose ARV to save money, lives
April 9 2013 at 05:49

Improved productivity and reduction in treatment costs by government were some of the economic benefits of government’s spending on the new fixed-dose combination drug antiretroviral (ARV) treatment launched yesterda... Read Story
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President Jacob Zuma has praised South Africa's

Zuma’s letter to public servants
April 8 2013 at 12:59

President Jacob Zuma has given "hard-working" public servants a pat on the back, but says there's room for improvement.

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Ex- prisoner sues ministry
April 5 2013 at 09:48

An ex -prisoner who says he contracted HIV after being gang-raped on his first night in jail is suing the Correctional Services Ministry for R1.7 million damages.

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Man sues over ‘jail rape that gave him HIV’
April 5 2013 at 09:03

An ex-inmate who says he contracted HIV after being raped on his first night in jail is suing correctional services.

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The individual in the study, from an African country that is not specified, is one of about 20 percent of HIV-infected people whose immune systems naturally produce BnAbs.

Found: antibody ‘roadmap’ to Aids vaccine
April 4 2013 at 09:59

One of vaccine developers' fiercest foes, the HIV virus typically evolves too fast to ever be left open to antibody attack. But this could change.

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A shopkeeper receives prescriptions to prepare medicines at his store in Allahabad, India.

India’s case for cheaper drugs
April 3 2013 at 12:27

Novartis patent ruling could drive away drug research, writes Linda Johnson

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NHI set for ‘quality healthcare’
April 3 2013 at 12:13

The Health System Trust’s annual SA Health Review 2012/13 and District Health Barometer, which report on trends in the health sector, were launched in Tshwane on Tuesday night. This is what came out of it.

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