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Breast cancer: your (poor) SA options

In South Africa it can take between six and nine months for a breast cancer patient to get diagnosed.

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Bead-dazzling wire works

Thousands of clay beads, hand-rolled by women in the Midlands, are being used to create exotic chandeliers and jewellery. Lindsay Ord spoke to the creative tale... Read Story

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Russia has ‘no anti-Aids strategy’

There is no government strategy to fight the spread of Aids in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, an official said.

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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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Mbuyiselo Botha, with his youngest daughter, Sbonganjalo, now 19.

SA: A nation of deadbeat dads?
March 28 2013 at 14:13

Men who father children are everywhere, but those who father their children are remarkably few. Helen Grange speaks to people who want to change that for the benefit of the children and the country

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Ma Agnes becomes a diabetes ambassador
March 28 2013 at 13:40

“Many people fear a diabetes diagnosis, but the truth is it’s a very manageable condition”

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Passionate dad Ben Msimang and his daughter Anele. Msimang is a great role model for involved fathering, says Front Page Father founder Kevin Rutter. Picture: Supplied

SA: A nation of deadbeat dads
March 27 2013 at 11:08

Men who father children are everywhere, but those who father their children are few. Helen Grange investigates...

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Sisa Nonama outside the Cape Town Regional Court. Picture: Jason Boud

Court should consider bus driver’s frailty
March 26 2013 at 15:31

The driver of the bus that crashed and killed 23 people in 2010 is very ill and would never be able to drive a bus again, the court heard.

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File photo: Sisa Nonama, 41, was driving a bus from Leeu-Gamka to Cape Town in May 2010, when it crashed near De Doorns in the early hours of the morning.

Court told of hardship after bus crash
March 26 2013 at 14:00

A Cape bus crash that killed 23 people in 2010 deeply affected the lives of family members left behind, the court heard.

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File photo: Sisa Nonama, 41, was driving a bus from Leeu-Gamka to Cape Town in May 2010, when it crashed near De Doorns in the early hours of the morning.

WCape bus crash 'affected families'
March 26 2013 at 13:20

A Western Cape bus crash that killed 23 people in 2010 deeply affected the lives of family members left behind, the Cape Town Magistrate's Court heard today.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and First Lady Peng Liyuan wave from their plane upon their arrival at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam March 24, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

China first lady a diplomatic star
March 25 2013 at 16:15

Glamorous new first lady Peng Liyuan has emerged as a Chinese diplomatic star.

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