Three cheers for Mandela’s Rainbow Nation, taught in schools around the world as a shining example of Liberalism. What they won’t teach the kids though is that things have got so bad in the Socialist ANC’s South Africa, that the regime has had to send their poor excuse for an army in, to quell the gang warfare in the Western Cape. The Gangs, who control the Cape Flats, however responded saying they do not fear the South African National Defense Force (SANDF). The response from the gangs, not only reveal just to what extent the SA Police Force is impotent, corrupt and not fit for purpose, but also how the army is also not fit for purpose and has in fact been turned into a huge medical aid scam by the ANC, as 70% of the army have AIDS, meaning taxpayers are paying for their medical bills…
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VIDEO: Liberalism At Its Finest: Materialism, Consumerism, Ego, Drugs, Guns & Real Bullets in the Coloured (Mixed Race) Heartland of Socialist South Africa
South Africa Re-elects A Corrupt, Racist, Incompetent, Nepotist ANC Again! White Guilt No Longer Required, Poverty is What The People Want!
As South Africa teeters on the brink, it re-elects hopeless ANC again! Do we now finally admit that post-apartheid South Africa has totally failed at its role as Africa’s shining light of a liberal multicultural democracy? While it is not the European white man’s job to tell Africans how to manage their rich and spectacular land or who to vote for, it is our duty to be honest with them if we think they have lost their way.
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Met sowat 7 miljoen mense wat HIV-positief is,is SA die grootste HIV draer in wêreld
Met sowat 7 miljoen mense wat HIV-positief is, word dit die land met die hoogste aantal besmettings ter wêreld beskou.
In die afgelope week het politieke leiers, geneeshere en wetenskaplikes almal hulle mening gege oor die geweldige krisis, en is dit beklemtoon dat die stryd nie laat vaar kan word teen die gevaarlike virus nie.
Met di hoë syfer van tuberkulose in die land, wat nie voldoende aandag kry ni, word HIV besmette mense se agteruitgang soveel vinniger wanneer hull ook di tuberkulose moet bestry.
Regerings departemente in al die provinsies is gevra om meer te doen ter bestryding van die HIV besmetting, maar daar is ook diegene wat reken die kultuur en gedrag van mense moet verander alvorens die krisis afgeweer sal word.
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Time to go back to basics in the fight against childhood pneumonia
Pneumonia is a respiratory infection that affects the lungs. The viruses and bacteria that cause the disease are spread through airborne droplets from a cough or sneeze. An infection can cause the lungs to fill with pus and fluid, making breathing and oxygen intake difficult.
And while anyone can get pneumonia, children with weakened immune systems or underlying illnesses are more susceptible. That’s why, pneumonia kills more than a million children every year across the world.
There have been some critical advances in preventing and treating the disease. These include vaccines, antibiotics and providing supplemental oxygen. In 2009, South Africa became the first African country to include the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in its routine infant immunisation programme. By 2012 an estimated 81% of one-year-old babies had received three doses of the vaccine.
South Africa has also reduced its pneumonia burden through the mass roll-out of antiretroviral therapy a
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The Showdown at the UN: SA takes on the US for cheaper drugs
When the US went to bat for Big Pharma in the fight against this killer disease, South Africa wasn’t having any of it. Here’s what happened next.
Graveyard cough, white plague, consumption. A killer by any name, TB has stalked the human race for aeons, lurking in crowded tenements or following miners deep underground, hanging in the air of our hospitals.
Always there, yet rarely spoken.
Today, it kills more people than HIV and malaria combined, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports. In South Africa, Statistics South Africa’s latest data shows TB remains the leading cause of non-violent deaths.
Yet it took the United Nations 73 years to call a meeting on TB — and only because a very excitable South African health minister agitated enough for it.
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Hospices close doors nationwide after funding cuts: Dying of the light
Hospice isn’t just a place to die but funding cuts – and that perception – could be killing our chances of a kinder death as refuges close. The morning sun cuts through half-open blinds and filters into a deserted ward at HospiceWits, the Soweto branch.
Outside, the August wind chases dust around the property.
The rays illuminate a room with five single beds. Bright orange curtains — once drawn to give patients and their families privacy — are roughly knotted or draped over the rails around each bed.
Against the wall above a small porcelain basin, a frozen clock reads 12:40.
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It’s been like that for more than a year.
“We had to retrench more than 20 people,” she says
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Would you test for HIV in your living room?
It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test
The trick, says Ann Moore as she pulls the small white stick from the plastic packaging, is not just to swab the gums but to scrape them.
The doctor sticks the rod under her lip and drags it first along one side of her gums, then the other.
“You don’t want saliva. You want the cells – the antibodies.”
She places the stick into a tube of clear liquid and waits. One line would mean she is HIV negative; two, HIV positive.
In 2013, the United Nations set the world an ambitious target of “90-90-90”: the idea was that, by 2020, 90% of all HIV-infected people would know their status, 90% of those diagnosed with HIV would be on antiretrovirals, and 90% of people receiving treatment would be virally suppressed.
Just three years away from the goal date, and with only 65% of South Africa’s 6.8-million people living with HIV diagn
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Time to develop new malaria drugs before its too late
It has been more than a century since Ronald Ross discovered that the female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria. In the interim, the world has made unbelievable strides in the fight against malaria. But both the mosquito and the malaria parasite are wily foes with the ability to develop resistance against the tools we use against them.
A recent study, Malaria Futures for Africa (MalaFA), questioned malaria leaders in 14 African countries about their views on the fight against malaria. The report revealed that many of them are highly concerned about resistance to artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) emerging. The early stages of resistance to ACTs, the current standard treatment recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) against malaria, have emerged in Southeast Asia and been observed in several countries there.
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TECHNOLOGY NEWS:- Students develop diagnosis app for deaf people
Cost-effective solutions to help deaf people navigate healthcare in developing countries is exactly what Banele Mhlongo and Vuma Mthembu, fourth-year medical students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), are trying to achieve with the app they are developing.
For people who are deaf, dealing with public services such as police stations or healthcare facilities without a sign-language interpreter can be stressful or at worst potentially dangerous. They are less likely to make use of healthcare facilities due to communication barriers, which can lead to an incorrect diagnosis or less than satisfactory treatment options.
The two students believe that communicating with the deaf is a vital aspect to create stronger health systems. Already, there is a strong focus on communication with patients at the UCT Health Science Faculty, where students learn isiXhosa and Afrikaans to ensure that patients can understand and respond to relevant questions when obtaining a medica
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Drug Users:- How to reverse overdoses
Find out how drug users banded together to use a simple injection to save thousands of lives. Alexander Walley was a twentysomething medical student when he witnessed the power of naloxone. It was the midnight shift at the Emergency Department at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
The call wasn’t unusual: a middle-aged man had been found unconscious after overdosing on heroin. Walley accompanied a pair of paramedics to an ambulance, and they headed out into the cool moonlit night. After five blocks or so they arrived at one of the city’s housing projects and threaded their way across crumbling sidewalks to a shabby apartment in a dimly lit building. Inside, Walley found the man slumped against a wall, blue-skinned and not breathing. “He looked dead,” Walley says, recalling the incident 15 years later.
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Is Dr Aaron Motsoaledi fiddling while healthcare is burning?
Despite the Life Esidimeni tragedy, non-existent oncology services in some provinces, striking healthcare workers and a damning quality standards report before parliament, Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi seems to be labouring under the delusion that the South African public healthcare system is not collapsing.
Speaking at a media briefing, the minister said he was not aware of any scientific methods used to measure the veracity of the claims made about the breakdown of the health system.
“I am not here to challenge that because I do not know the yardstick that was used to arrive at a conclusion of collapse. Surely healthcare systems are measured on some form of scientific yardstick to arrive at any conclusion.”
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Oppressed White South African Minority Arm Themselves to Defend Their Farms, Family and Freedom (Video)
Controversial plans to amend the constitution to enable land grabs without compensation in South Africa, are raising already high tensions among the nation’s white minority, many of whom have taken to arming themselves, not only to protect themselves and their family in a crime ridden country, but also to defend their property or farms against government seizures…
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ANC looks to axe medical aid tax credits, expand National Health Insurance
The ruling party says it’s time to get serious about funding and rolling out South Africa’s universal access to healthcare plan. Your medical aid tax credits could be back on the chopping block if a decision by the education and health subcommittee of the ANC’s national executive committee is anything to go by. The committee..
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When he won’t say yes to a condom, maybe you should say yes to this pill
Would you test for HIV in your living room?
It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test The trick, says Ann Moore as she pulls the small white stick from the plastic packaging, is not just to swab the gums but to scrape them. The doctor sticks the..
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