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HIV a real threat to Vietnam's under-15s
Source: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
Approximately 5,700 children under the age of 15 in Vietnam will be infected with HIV in the next three years, according to a recent report by the Department for HIV/AIDS Prevention. The department has worked alongside the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS and a number…
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No games, no lies, vows health head Hogan
Source: Pretoria News (South Africa)
by Graeme Hosken Newly-appointed Health Minister Barbara Hogan will change the way South Africa combats HIV/Aids and TB. Speaking in Pretoria yesterday, Hogan said health care was a human right. "Health care is about being responsive and supportive, and providing a good service," she said.…
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Human Rights for Lesbians and Gays in the New South Africa: Still Much Work to Do
Source: Gara LaMarche
Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…
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Campaign targets passage of HIV from mother to child
Source: Vietnam News Service
Original Source HA NOI — The Ministry of Health yesterday launched a campaign on prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in an effort to ease the increasing impact of the disease in Viet Nam. Speaking at the launch ceremony held in Ha Noi, Deputy Prime Minister…
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Take2: Winds of change sweep SA healthcare
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by ANNABEL JACOBY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - As recently as last year, professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of South Africa’s foremost HIV researchers, were two of the health department’s greatest enemies. Former…
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Refugees 'beaten, shocked' by metro cops
Source: The Star (South Africa)
The Aids Law Project, the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights are Atlantic grantees. by Louise Flanagan Destitute people who were arrested while sleeping outside the Methodist Church in central Joburg a week ago say police beat them, insulted them, gave them electric…
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TAC Statement on new cabinet appointments and resources for health
Source: Treatment Action Campaign
The Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. TAC E-Newsletter The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) welcomes the appointment of Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi as the Minister of Health, and the re-appointment of Dr. Molefi Sefularo as the Deputy Minister of Health. Both the Health Minister and…
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Study refutes claims patients stopping ARVs for grant money
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. by JENNY GROSS ALTHOUGH there have been reports of Aids patients refusing life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to lower their blood counts enough to qualify for social grants, a three-year study in Khayelitsha found no evidence that people give…
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Nurses Should Be Backbone of ARV Treatment
Source: Inter Press Service
by Kristin Palitza DURBAN, Apr 2 (IPS) - Effectively scaling up South Africans’ access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment will require decentralisation of health services from hospitals to clinics and allowing nurses to manage and eventually to initiate ARV treatment and care. Doctors, researchers and activists…
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Out of stock = out of life
Source: Mail & Guardian
by NOSIMILO NDLOVU Provincial health departments faced with antiretroviral drug shortages are defiantly overspending on their budgets, rather than see patients die. Limpopo anticipates shortages and is overspending to keep patients on treatment. "We are employed to save lives so we would rather overspend now…
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