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Ntando Makhubu
May 3, 2012


THE SEDIBA Hope Medical Centre, catering for Pretoria’s inner-city community by providing family medicine, HIV treatment and social support to the disadvantaged, was officially opened...

Khopotso Bodibe
August 11, 2011


As part of the country's effort to roll out medical male circumcision in a bid to reduce HIV infection among men, the Gauteng Health Department has set itself a target to circumcise about 125 000...

Bobby Ramakant - Citizen News Services (CNS)
March 23, 2011


Key questions regarding the new tools and new challenges facing TB control and prevention today are being addressed through an innovative international initiative, TREAT TB. The purpose of TREAT...

Zwelakhe Shangase - Sowetan
October 8, 2010

The KwaZulu-Natal health department, USAID and Broadreach, hand 10 infrastructure development projects to the Ugu district municipality to the tune of R32million.


The projects are intended to increase access to primary healthcare and to reach the HIV counselling and testing targets of 205000 people by June 2011.

The handover ceremony was held at the...

Brothers for life
June 2, 2010


Brothers for Life, the national SANAC endorsed men's campaign, with support from USAID, UNICEF, Manchester United and FC Barcelona, has named a phenomenal squad of national and international...

Tygertalk
May 27, 2010


Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Jeff Radebe, opened a USAID-sponsored centre for victims of rape and other forms of gender violence at Karl Bremer Hospital in Bellville on...

Kruger2Canyon
December 28, 2009

Hoedspruit


The United States of America recently re-engaged in the fight against AIDS in South Africa through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and initiative that enables...

James D Shelton
December 28, 2009

Multiple sexual partnerships


Multiple sexual partnerships—particularly overlapping or concurrent partnerships—by both men and women lie at the root of the generalised epidemic of HIV in southern and eastern Africa...

health-e
December 21, 2009

South Africa’s youth have given the animated Scrutinize HIV prevention campaign the thumbs up


Scrutinize recently won a 2009 Khuza Award, voted for by children and young adults, making it a first for a social marketing campaign to successfully compete against the big name brands.....