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A study amongst 2443 people in Zambia,
recruited from HIV clinics and community organisations, found that social
ostracism, rejection by sexual partners and fear of not being able to handle antiretroviral
therapy (ART) were the reasons people most often ...
26 July 2012 | Gus Cairns
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The Daily Mail and the Sun are
alarming their readers today with articles alleging that “fish foot spa
pedicures could spread HIV and hepatitis C” and that there is a "fish foot spa virus bombshell". The story has ...
18 October 2011 | Roger Pebody
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In Cape Town,
African women who think that AIDS is man-made are half as likely as other
African women to have used a condom during their most recent sexual encounter,
researchers report in the journal AIDS
and Behavior. In addition, ...
18 May 2011 | Roger Pebody
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Alternative treatments such as herbal remedies are commonly used by patients from southern Africa in London, but imbalanced power relationships discourage discussion of their use with clinicians, researchers report in the online edition of Social Science ...
07 January 2010 | Roger Pebody
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Activists and health workers in South Africa celebrated outside the Cape Town parliament building last night after the news that Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has been replaced as South Africa’s Minister of Health by Barbara Hogan, one ...
26 September 2008 | Theo Smart
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South Africans who believe in a conspiracy theory that HIV was introduced by white people as a way of controlling the black population are significantly less likely to have had an HIV test, according to a ...
01 September 2008 | Michael Carter
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One-in-ten patients at large HIV clinics in London are taking complementary or alternative treatments that were potentially dangerous to their health, according to a study presented to the Sixteenth International AIDS Conference in Toronto last week. ...
30 August 2006 | Michael Carter
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The leader of South Africa’s trade union movement has strongly criticised President Mbeki and his government for failing to provide leadership in the fight against AIDS, and says that Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang prefers to speak ...
27 September 2005 | Keith Alcorn
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“The best way of honouring the memory of Nkosi Johnson and many other children who met premature deaths at the hands of HIV/AIDS is to end denialism now!”, Dr Mamphela Ramphele told a cheering audience last ...
08 June 2005 | Theo Smart
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While reputable scientists discussed the links between HIV and nutrition at the WHO technical consultation in Durban (see link), the local South African media has been preoccupied by a controversy triggered by a wealthy German vitamin ...
18 April 2005 | Theo Smart
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