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Gauteng Health shows Improvements
10 January 2012
Gauteng's health department is showing signs of considerable improvements. According to a Statistics SA report and communique from the Communications Department of the Gauteng provincial government Read full story
Top Ten HIV- Related Stories of 2011
6 January 2012
It's been a roller coaster of a year in HIV and AIDS. AIDS turned 30 in 2011, and with new evidence of the effectiveness of HIV treatment as prevention, experts are increasingly talking about "the end of AIDS". At the same time, however, funding for HIV has become ever more uncertain, jeopardizing efforts to put new, life-saving science into action Read full story
Key Health Issues: 2011 in Review
5 January 2012
In 2011, there was important progress in a number of areas. Reports published by WHO on AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria all indicated fewer deaths – and fewer new infections. The UN General Assembly met to agree a global agenda for noncommunicable diseases – only the second time (after HIV/AIDS) that a health-related theme was selected as the topic for a UN high-level meeting. Read full story
A New Category of Health Care Workers
4 January 2012
A new cadre of health care workers called Clinical Associates, which are positioned just above nurses and just below doctors will join the country's health care workforce and strengthen health care services especially in rural areas Read full story
