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South Africa: the HIV waiting game
In South Africa HIV patients continue to feel the effects of a chronic shortage of health workers. Zinhle Mapumulo looks at a problem that refuses to go away. The Tshepang Clinic in Pretoria is fully...
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Hard labour: stopping HIV in its tracks
Collins Vumiria discovers why Uganda’s traditional birth attendants are being sidelined in the fight against HIV. Earlier this month I asked Uganda’s minister of state in charge of primary health care,...
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Uganda strives for a generation free from HIV
Kakaire Kirunda thinks the only way to stop the spread of HIV among teenagers is to treat them like adults. Against a soothing instrumental background, a group of female friends discuss the hazards of...
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Return to Mazista: a South African village recovers its health
Zinhle Mapumulo revisits a South African village in desperate need of health services and is pleasantly surprised. Eight months ago, just before the G8 meeting in Germany, I visited the village of...
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At the G8 in Germany our team of AfricaVox 2007 bloggers cast a critical eye over HIV promises made by the world’s powerful. Now they’re looking closer to home and discover that problems in the health...
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