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World Cancer Day marked in SA

 

Pretoria, 8 February 2011 - Hundreds of people gathered at Orlando Communal Hall on Friday, 04 February 2011, to commemorate World Cancer Day.  The aim of the event was to raise awareness on the impact of cancer and increase understanding of prevention, detection, treatment and care.Cancer survivors and their supporters educated people about what it means to have cancer as well as the how best to support someone who is living with cancer. 
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Nurses rate cellphone info a smart idea

23 November 2010. - Nurses across the country could find their work a little easier if a new mobile health information system (MHIS) being tried by the Health Department in various Nelson Mandela Bay hospitals is rolled out nationally.

The project provides nurses with point-of-care access to searchable health information, usually only found in textbooks, through wireless 3G-enabled smartphones.

Nurses have described the technology as a “powerful device” for obtaining the medical information they need.

The project, run by the Health Department in conjunction with Qualcomm and MTN, has been tested by 50 public sector nurses from Dora Nginza, Livingstone and Provincial hospitals.

More: The Herald

 

Breaking With Past, South Africa Issues Broad AIDS Policy

December 1, 2009

JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma, taking a concrete step away from the South African government's previous delays in providing drugs to treat AIDS and prevent women from infecting their newborns, declared Tuesday in a national address on World AIDS Day that drug therapy for H.I.V.-positive pregnant women and babies would be broadened and start earlier.

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Ten-day HIV, AIDS education drive to be launched

November 23, 2009

Pretoria - Today marks the start of a 10-day door-to-door campaign to educate Gauteng communities about HIV and AIDS.
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South Africa - President Jacob Zuma on the Occasion of World Aids Day, Pretoria Showgrounds, 1 December 2009

1 December, 2009.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, The Minister  of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and all Ministers and Deputy Ministers present, Premier of Gauteng Nomvula Mokonyane and MECs present, Executive Mayor of Tshwane Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, Deputy Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council, Mark Heywood, Members of the diplomatic corps, UN AIDS Executive Director Michel Sedibe and all representatives of international agencies, Fellow South Africans,

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