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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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ELMI MULLER
South Africa has one of the highest incidences of HIV in the world. More than 7-million people in the country are living with HIV. This high prevalence rate has led scientists in the country to explore solutions for a wide range of clinical problems that HIV-positive patients face, including end stage kidney failure.read
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The current macro-economic outlook and constrained fiscal environment means that Implementing National Health Insurance (NHI) is likely to take longer than originally planned...read
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Healthcare
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ISSUED BY MICROSOFT
Struggling with admin, patient bookings, and general time management? You don't need to, when one software suite can solve it all... Read
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HIV/AIDS
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MHAIRI MASKEW
The United Nations has set targets to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To do this the aim is to ensure that by next year, all countries will have achieved what the UN calls 90-90-90 targets... Read
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MICHAEL HATHORN, ISSUED BY GINKGO AGENCY
South Africa has the most severe HIV epidemic in the world... Read
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Aesthetic Medicine
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DR LESTONN LAWN, ISSUED BY RENEWAL INSTITUTE
There once was a time when a frozen forehead was the order of the day, but now, the biggest trend in aesthetic medicine is a shift towards a more natural look... Read
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Hospital Groups
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ISSUED BY COHSASA
The healthcare facilities listed have been awarded accreditation by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), a not-for-profit company (NPC) based in Cape Town... Read
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Medical Research
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KENNETH MCLEOD
Decline in brain function often occurs as people age. People often worry that declining brain function is an inevitable part of growing old and will lead to dementia, but it is not... Read
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A new approach to treating people with cystic fibrosis (CF) has been shown to reduce inflammation, which has the potential to reduce the need for lung transplants and lower the risk of death... Read
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Nutrition
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OLUMIDE A ODEYEMI
It's important to gain a deeper understanding about the various ways in which humans and animals have been exposed to antibiotics, and the rise in bacteria found in food that's resistant to the drugs... Read
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Obstetrics & Gynaecology
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PATIENCE AFULANI
Maternal and neonatal mortality has remained high in low-resource settings despite progress in recent years. The estimated maternal mortality ratio in Kenya is 342 per 100,000 live births, a startling 18 times the rate in the United States... Read
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Pharmaceuticals
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SABIHA ESSACK
Antibiotics have revolutionised health care since their introduction into clinical practice in the 1930s and 1940s by dramatically decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with bacterial infections in humans and animals... Read
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ISSUED BY ONPOINT PR
Lee-Ann Liebenberg is launching a new health and wellness brand called DR+SWISS, a range of products that contains premium CBD oils sourced from Switzerland, into the South African market... Read
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ISSUED BY ONPOINT PR
SA's most premium range of CBD Oil products formulated from harvesting Europe's finest hemp crops combined with the latest in Swiss extraction technology to ensure the utmost purity... Read
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At the recent inaugural session of the Global Gender Summit, hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the organisation's president, Akinwumi Adesina, called for greater access to finance for African women... Read
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Technology employed by economies across the globe has made it substantially easier for businesses to pay their taxes... Read
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JOÃO MARQUES
For the better part of the last half century, oil and gas has been portrayed over and over again as the source of all evil across Africa, responsible for instability, power struggles, poverty, death, pollution and corruption... Read
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This year, to encourage and reward good monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practice in the non-profit sector, MTN Foundation, in partnership with Trialogue, launched the MTN Awards for Social Change... Read
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JANE NJOKU
Have you thought about where you will be or what you would likely be doing in five years time? Read
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According to findings from the latest edition of the Trialogue Business in Society Handbook, companies spent an estimated R10.2bn on CSI in South Africa in 2019... Read
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