'Breast cancer is worse than HIV': Low-income communities in South Africa have the lowest incidence of breast cancer in the country. But they also have the worst health outcomes. Black South African women are the least likely segment ... Source: "South Africa" - BingNews Ex-Wildcat Gerhard de Beer, at one time a Bill, Packer and Colt, learning that pro football career … [Read more...] about SA News: ‘Breast cancer is worse than HIV’
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Liver transplant from HIV+ living donor to negative recipient: key ethical issues | The Conversation
Liver transplant from HIV+ living donor to negative recipient: key ethical issues: Fundamental questions of ethics are involved in donor transplant decisions. ShutterstockSouth Africa has a dire shortage of organ donors. This means that doctors struggle to find suitable donor organs for critically ill patients who would die without receiving a transplant. Sometimes they … [Read more...] about Liver transplant from HIV+ living donor to negative recipient: key ethical issues | The Conversation
Men aren’t being tested for HIV. How health services can plug the gap | The Conversation
Men aren't being tested for HIV. How health services can plug the gap: A community health worker conducting a HIV test in a mobile clinic in a remote part of KwaZulu-Natal. Greg Lomas / Médecins Sans FrontièresMen make up slightly less than half of the adults living with HIV across the world. Yet they account for nearly 60% of the AIDS related deaths. This is one of the … [Read more...] about Men aren’t being tested for HIV. How health services can plug the gap | The Conversation
Supporting World AIDS Day
Land Rover's partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is supporting World AIDS Day on 1 December 2011. The partnership forms part of an integrated approach to sustainability and the IFRC is one of Land Rover's six Global Humanitarian & Conservation Partners within Land Rovers' Our Planet. In 2010, the IFRC and Land … [Read more...] about Supporting World AIDS Day
South Africans make inputs into country’s Aids strategy
Pretoria - For the first time in the country's history, ordinary South Africans have been given the opportunity to have their voices heard and their inputs incorporated in the development of the new National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV and AIDS 2012- 2016. The National Association of People Living with HIV and AIDS (NAPWA) and the Progressive Men's Movement of South Africa … [Read more...] about South Africans make inputs into country’s Aids strategy
