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Pink parade hits the city streets
Lesbians and gays including transsexual people staged the first ever pride march in the streets of Polokwane to a mixture of cheers and insults from shoppers on Saturday.IN THE NEWS: Paper test could save lives!
Chemists in the USA have developed a sensor that may be able to test for diseases such as malaria and HIV - for less than R1 a time. And the sensor is made of folded paper! Richard Crooks, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas said: "Anybody can fold them up. An NGO with some volunteers can do itIN THE NEWS: Parents’ anguish after surgery left boy with HIV
They have undergone several HIV tests, And every time, the test results came back negative. However, their nine-year-old son is on antiretroviral treatment, having tested positive when he was just seven months old.IN THE NEWS: “YOU ARE HIV POSITIVE” wrote the doctor who tested 36-year-old John Meletse in 2002
He spelt it out in enormous capitals and held the page right in front of Meletse's eyes. Meletse, who was born deaf, covers his face with his hands as he tells his story of when he was tested for HIV.IN THE NEWS: Raped while looking for help!
The Schoolgirl's family took her to hospital because she became very depressed after testing positive for HIV. But instead of getting better in the psychiatric ward, she was raped in December! And a young male nurse is allegedly the evil culprit.IN THE NEWS: Gogos show way to good health
Take charge of your health! That's the message the old people of Ekhurhuleni are sending to youngsters by their keen attendance at the Metro's reproductive health workshops.IN THE NEWS: MEC in HIV counselling, testing drive
HEALTH MEC Dikeledi Magadzi in partnership with the University of Venda will today conduct a massive HIV counselling and testing campaign as part of the STI/Condom week and pregnancy awareness week.IN THE NEWS: Captain Love leads the way
Captain Love, a new agony aunt column in The New Age, offers some insightful advice for those in need. The topic for this week centres around a man who suspects his girlfriend of 10 years of cheating, believing that the baby she is now carrying is not his.Oral HIV tests less reliable than blood tests
The accuracy of increasingly popular HIV home-testing kits is under scrutiny according to a report in The Times.
A study, published in the Lancet online medical journal this week, revealed that the oral tests (which involve swabbing the inside of the cheek) are 2 percent less accurate at detecting HIV antibodies than tests that use blood.
According to the article, home testing has become extremely popular in countries like Kenya and Uganda where confidentiality of HIV test results is a problem.
And while 2 percent less sensitivity might seem negligible, when oral testing kits are being used by millions of people, inaccurate results (especially false negatives) are potentially significant, according to Mark Sonderup of the South African Medical Association.
