Hand, foot and mouth disease may not be a public health priority, but parents and caregivers at day-care centres should still be careful about its spread.
Uncollected rubbish provides food and shelter for rodents which can spread plague if they pick up the bacteria.
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Understanding what causes diseases is a life-and-death matter. It is a complicated issue that has generated a great deal of debate in the medical community.
Women’s ability to work is severely constrained by the lack of child care facilities in urban slums.
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Doctors in South Africa have not been doing enough counselling of people who drink, smoke, don’t exercise and eat badly on ways to change their lifestyles.
Vasectomies allow fathers to have a more active role in family planning.
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People who have rheumatoid arthritis often suffer from depression as well. For poor people this is often worse because they cut off their social networks.
A community health worker walks a couple through an HIV test in Malawi. Mostly men do not access these services.
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The closure of several mines in South Africa and production cuts could have a detrimental impact on the health of miners who rely on in-house HIV and TB treatment programmes.
Nigerian Health Minister Isaac Adewole has a great deal of fixing to the country’s primary healthcare system.
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It’s impossible to think about maternal health in Ethiopia without thinking about the time and distance between where rural women live and where the government constructs health facilities.
Men can deny paternity in when women they are involved with fall pregnant as a way of punishing the women.
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When men deny the paternity of children, many South African women feel like they have no recourse. Making DNA tests affordable and accessible could change this.
A nurse weighs a baby at a clinic in Johannesburg. South Africa has released its policy document to implement its universal health coverage plan.
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South Africa’s plan for universal health coverage has taken another crucial step with the introduction of a new policy document aimed at delivering more equitable healthcare.
The successful prevention of mother to child transmission programmes means nearly all HIV-infected pregnant women should get anti-retroviral treatment to protect their babies.
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South Africa’s programmes preventing HIV transmission from mothers to children have been hugely successful. But there are still gaps that need to be filled.
A woman prepares ribbons ahead of World Aids Day.
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Women who were found to have lied in a clinical trial testing anti-HIV drugs were heavily criticised. But there are several factors that drove them to lie.
Women would prefer a product that addresses multiple sexual and reproductive health risks at the same time.
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Scientists are developing various products that can provide contraception and protection from sexually transmitted infections and HIV at the same time.
HIV services are not geared towards men even though they make up two-thirds of the HIV-related deaths globally.
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand