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By The New Age
Every week South Africans read stories of people who were abandoned as children making a desperate plea to be reunited with their parents on the hugely popular reality show Khumbul'Ekhaya.
Continue reading | 21 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: children orphaned by aids, the new age, women
By The New Age
Some 879 children under the age of five died in KZN hospitals in the first three months of this year. Statistics released by the department of health in the legislature yesterday showed that between January and March, Prince Mshiyeni Hospital in Umlazi had 57 infant mortalities, the highest in the province.
Continue reading | 17 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: healthcare, mortality, pmtct, the new age
By The New Age
One event and the reporting of an issue demonstrated in the past few weeks that there is excellence in our journalism.
Four years ago Discovery Health launched an annual competition for excellence in health journalism, of which I am the convener.
Continue reading | 16 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: hiv awareness, journalism, news media, the new age
By The New Age
The health and social development department has admitted that some clinics in the province lacked vital medicines. Department spokesperson Phuti Seloba said the department had to rotate medicine stock due to problems with medicine tender distribution processes at the national level.
Continue reading | 15 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: art, doh, the new age
By The New Age
The MEC for health, Sibongiseni Dhlomo says nurses have a pivotal role in ensuring that the maternal mortality ratio in KZN is reduced.
Dlomo also said that South Africa had actually deteriorated in terms of reducing maternal mortality.
Continue reading | 14 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: healthcare, mortality, the new age
By The New Age
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.
Continue reading | 14 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: gay pride, hiv testing, the new age
By The New Age
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has completed a three-day visit to the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot project in Pixley ka-Seme district, where he met stakeholders and checked preparations for the rollout of NHI in the area. He was accompanied by health MEC Mxolisi Sokatsha.
Continue reading | 14 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: aaron motsoaledi, healthcare, nhi, the new age
By The New Age
The fight against tuberculosis in the province has been taken a step forward with the opening of a newly refurbished tuberculosis unit by acting premier Griezelda Cjiekella, at West End Hospital, in Kimberley.
Continue reading | 14 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: healthcare, tb, the new age
By The New Age
Former University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) academic and a pioneer in the field of theatre and Aids communication, Professor Lynn Dalrymple, 71, has died after suffering kidney failure.
Continue reading | 8 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: hiv awareness, the new age, women
By The New Age
Dr Gita Ramjee, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) alumnus and head of Aids Research at the South African Medical Research Council (MRC), has received the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2012 International Microbicide conference in Sydney, Australia. The award was presented to Ramjee and Dr Lut Van Damme from FHI 360 in North Carolina, US
Continue reading | 8 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: research, the new age, women
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