The new Surgical Skills Training Centre at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, which will officially be opened today, is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa to offer training in paediatric Endoscopic Surgery.
Health & HIV/AIDS The new Surgical Skills Training Centre at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, which will officially be opened today, is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa to offer training in paediatric Endoscopic Surgery.
Eight middle-aged Momentum employees are taking to the road between 19th and 24th June, to run the 750km from their head office in Centurion to Durban in order to raise awareness and funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of South Africa (HSFSA).
South Africa's programme to prevent HIV in babies has achieved a 96.5% success rate in wiping out transmission from infected pregnant mothers, the Medical Research Council said Thursday.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have awarded South African NGO, SADAG, the information and communication technology prize for their health innovation, the Speaking Book.
Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has hailed South Africa's turnaround on AIDS, going from denialism to the roll-out of the world's largest treatment programme.
KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Senzo Mchunu will this afternoon launch a campaign aimed at reducing the high rate of learner pregnancy and substance abuse by school children.
R1.9 billion will be spent renovating hospitals and clinics in the Eastern Cape, the provincial health department said on Tuesday.
Two new prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) HIV clinics will be officially opened in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday by Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo.
South Africa's AIDS deaths have fallen by nearly 25 percent due to scaled up access to life-saving drugs.
Over 99 percent of a group of more than 17,000 men circumcised in KwaZulu-Natal had tested negative for HIV, the provincial health department said on Friday.
More than 90 percent of babies born to HIV positive mothers in Gauteng public health facilities between April and June 2010 were saved from the virus, says the provincial Health and Social Development Department.
This is an improvement from an average of 70 percent in previous months. The department said that 91 percent of babies whose mothers were on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) were tested six weeks after birth and tested HIV negative. With the new ARV guidelines that were implemented in all public health facilities in Gauteng offering anti natal care services since April this year, the province hopes to further reduce the mother to child transmission rate, said department in a statement.
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