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South African guidelines for the preventative use of HIV medication by men who have sex with men who are not infected with the virus are to be published in the peer-reviewed academic publication, Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, this month. The treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis (Prep), consists of an antiretroviral (ARV) pill that is taken

12 June 2012 Rabies has been confirmed in a 29 year old farmer from Underberg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The patient was admitted to a Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal hospital on the 2nd May 2012 with migratory pain in his arm and shoulder, unilateral ptosis, fever, confusion, and progressively hypersalivation and hydrophobia. The patient was already

Major milestone heralds broad, collaborative action to fight vaccine-preventable diseases   Geneva, Switzerland – May 25, 2012 – Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly today endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines

25 May 2012   New cases at lowest levels ever, but funding gap threatens progress Geneva, Switzerland 24 May 2012 – Despite the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last year, the threat of continued transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)to launch an Emergency Action

South Africa is burdened by one of the worst tuberculosis (TB) epidemics in the world. And, our gold mining industry may well have the highest incidence of TB in the world, with cases ranging from 3,000 to 7,000 per 100,000 miners per year, according to the Department of Health’s 2007 – 2011 strategic plans for

06 February 2012 Advocating for efforts to protect African children, families and communities from the threat of infectious diseases Cape Town, South Africa, 9 to 11 November 2012 Hosted by the Vaccines for Africa Initiative (VACFA), University of Cape Town (UCT), the conference is jointly organized by UCT and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases

Annually, over 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer worldwide and 7.6 million people die from the disease. This is more than the combined deaths from AIDS, malaria and TB, according to the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). World Cancer Day takes place annually on 4 February and the theme for 2012 is ’Together