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The road to lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people begins with the courage to ask the right questions, said Le Nhan Phuong, Programme Director of the Population Health Programme at The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the International Conference on…

Original Source HIV prevalence among pregnant women has stabilised at about 29%, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday. "The prevalence among women aged 25 and above has stabilised at high and unacceptable levels," Motsoaledi said in Pretoria, releasing the 2008 results of a survey…

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The Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. by Gia Nicolaides The Treatment Action Campaign says Ekurhuleni hospitals are suffering from major staff shortages - more so than other facilities in the province. Dozens of TAC members marched to the mayoral offices in Germiston on Thursday to hand…

by Lyse Comins The University of KwaZulu-Natal's Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine has brought lectures, training and clinical duties in hospitals to a halt in solidarity with striking doctors who have vowed to continue protesting until the Department of Health reinstates their 244 fired…

by Caiphus Kgosana Taking a cue from President Jacob Zuma's promise to halve new HIV and Aids infections in two years and Julius Malema's "one girlfriend, one boyfriend" campaign, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has decided to double the number of free condoms. Motsoaledi said in…

by Mogomotsi Magome and SAPA The Department of Health has offered to increase some doctors' salaries by up to 60 percent from next month, in a bid to avert a nationwide strike that could cripple the public health system. The increases proposed by the department…

Striking doctors in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday embarked on a campaign to cajole their counterparts in other parts of the country to join them. The strike over pay and working conditions started in KwaZulu-Natal four days ago and had crippled public health institutions in urban areas…