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PAULINE BAKIBINGA
Four years ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) rolled out its global strategy to eliminate hepatitis by 2030. Known as a "silent killer" disease, hepatitis is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the liver... read
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KENNETH COSTER AND SHANE JOHNSON
Essential services refer to those services that, if interrupted, would endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole or any part of the population. Once a service is declared as an essential service, employees working in such services may not engage in strike action...read
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A global commission on health and migration has released its report on how healthcare systems fail migrants...read
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REBECCA WALKER AND JO VEAREY
Women are on the move throughout southern Africa. They move within the countries they were born in, or cross borders in the region. Although more men than women migrate the data shows that the number of women migrating within the Southern African Development Community region is rising... Read
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MICHELLE MOORHOUSE & WILLEM DANIEL FRANCOIS VENTER
A new antiretroviral drug regimen has been given the go-ahead by the World Health Organisation. This follows the preliminary results from studies that include an ongoing trial in South Africa... Read
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ISSUED BY COHSASA
Cohsasa's new Healthcare Standards Development Coordinator is Dr Nicholas Burger... Read
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Nutrition
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ISSUED BY PROVEN PROBIOTICS
The world's most respected producers of probiotics, ProVen, is now available in South Africa! ProVen Probiotics are a revolutionary new range of probiotics products designed to suit everyone... Read
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Pharmaceutical Companies
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ISSUED BY CIPLA
Cipla Medpro is proud to announce that Dr. Yusuf Hamied, Cipla's Chairman, has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, U.K. for his service to the cause of science... Read
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Public Health
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The budget delivered by KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu, is comprehensive and balanced, but that some areas remain a concern.. says the local branch of the South African Medical Association (Sama)... Read
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Women's Health
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ISSUED BY ASSOCIATION FOR DIETETICS IN SOUTH AFRICA
You may think: 'It's not my baby, it's not my problem'; or 'I am so uncomfortable, I have a right not to have a breastfeeding mom near me!' You would be wrong on both accounts... Read
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According to the Central Energy Fund, fuel prices for August are set for changes with petrol up and diesel down... Read
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MIKE ABEL
Strive to own a small part of something extraordinary and not a large part of something ordinary, writes Mike Abel... Read
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