Drug firms in African partnerships
Collaboration offers opportunities for both sides, says head of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Health Programme Trevor MundelGates Foundation forms new health partnerships in South Africa
Medical Research Council, University of Cape Town and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation seek new, homegrown tools to fight HIV, TB and malaria
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Africa has talent to solve its medical problems
Trevor Mundel and Salim S Abdool Karim
Globalisation of medical research has enabled African countries to establish a research infrastructure
UNAIDS has ‘good news’ about HIV in South Africa
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS hands Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe report that shows new HIV infections have fallen since 2004
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Study uses stem cells to help treat drug-resistant TB
Patients with potentially lethal multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) might one day be treated with stem cells taken from their own bone marrowFire Western Cape health boss, says ANC
African National Congress calls for head of health MEC Theuns Botha, citing ‘grim crisis’ at Cape Flats hospitals, adding to recent call for Helen Zille to quit as premier
How master of political theatre put AIDS in spotlight
By his own admission, Nelson Mandela was a late comer to recognising the unfolding tragedy, writes Tamar Kahn
Free State TAC leader ‘received death threats’
Allegations by Section27 follow release of damning report on drug shortages at various healthcare facilities in South Africa
SA’s HIV plan to focus on health of sex workers
National strategic plan for HIV prevention, care and treatment for sex workers lauded as a model for the rest of the world
ARM quizzed about health spending
African Rainbow Minerals chairman Patrice Motsepe to provide more detail about cut in HIV/AIDS budget
TB patients sent home to die, says study
Study finds that 42% of the patients who were discharged from hospital with incurable, extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB are still infectious
Google develops contact lens glucose monitor
Google unveils contact lens that monitors glucose levels in tears, a potential reprieve for millions of diabetics
Department to assess effects of mooted alcohol ad ban
Department of Health to commission independent regulatory impact assessment of plan to ban advertising of alcohol products
Opinion
Wipe out malaria by wiping out worst poverty
Jasson Urbach
Only when we eliminate dire poverty, will it be possible for malaria to be eradicated once and for all
Opinion
God will cure cancer when he’s good and ready
Gareth van Onselen
With the ANC’s position as ‘The Chosen Party’ and God’s messenger, it is hardly surprising it can tell conforming voters to keep their ‘dirty votes’
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- Alarm over shortage of ARV drugs
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- Global health plan aims to reduce gap between rich, poor
- Medicine falls back in funding queue for private money
- Grants keep HIV sugar daddies at bay
- Sterile males the buzz in malaria battle
- A youthful take on the pandemic
- RICHARD FEACHEM AND YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA: Time to eliminate malaria in southern Africa
- Motsoaledi defends alcohol advert ban
- State ‘not trying to destroy’ healthcare
- Gauteng struggling to steer its health turnaround plan
- Activists push for drug patent reforms
- Treasury’s NHI discussion document nearly ready
- Violence puts pressure on Western Cape healthcare
- Department to ‘clamp down’ on nurses who abuse sick leave
- System ‘not allowing sick state staff to retire’
- Ambitious goals to end mosquito-borne disease
- Cholesterol drug feasible, study shows
- Change of mind on health gap cover
- Pharmacists reluctant to bill for checks
- Regular walking lowers risk of breast cancer
- SA poised to host human trials of malaria drug made in Africa
- McCord Hospital to keep doors open, court rules
- Firm warns on state role in private health
- State moves on ‘miracle cure’ drugs
- Motsoaledi warns opportunists NHI will not be ‘a pot of gold’
- Healthcare probe: storm looms for hospitals, funders
- Parliament’s help sought in health crisis
- South Africa ‘seeks balance’ between intellectual property, public health
- Public, private hospital costs ‘similar’
- Minister to name health watchdog officials
- Department to assist with linen tender for Gauteng
- Former CEO faces trial in vaccines swindle
- Minister blasts alcohol industry’s ‘arrogance’
- SA ‘cannot afford’ the medical specialists it trains
- EDITORIAL: Health insurance can bridge the gap
- Activists must join fight against corruption in health sector, says Section27
- Clean audits for health departments
- National Health Insurance ‘not the end’ of medical schemes industry
- Treasury makes U-turn on gap-cover health insurance products
- Importance of oral health ‘often overlooked’ in SA
- Throw off our nappies and rein in all those nannies
- Screening encouraged for immune system nutrients in undernourished patients
- UCT’s private academic hospital aims to raise patient occupancy rate
- UN reports ‘dramatic’ progress in global fight against AIDS
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