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EQUIP is a Rapid Response Mechanism to Strengthen HIV Treatment and Prevention I Knew I was Sick – Mildred’s Story - Mildred had known she was sick for the last year but she was too scared, no – too petrified she said – to have a HIV…

Equip | Five Answers to Your PrEP Questions PrEP stands for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, and it is an additional HIV prevention option. PrEP is for HIV-negative people who are at a high risk of getting HIV. PrEP is a tablet that should be taken daily for as long as a person is at a significant risk of HIV. If you want to stop taking it because y...

[WATCH] SA EXCLUSIVE: Charlize Theron on HIV - the stigma must stop The Hollywood star sat down with EWN's Ilze-Marie le Roux in an exclusive to talk about the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project and its involvement in the fight against HIV/Aids.

There are no by-standees in life. Our humanity makes us part of a greater whole! It is within this context that we should each contribute.
Public health like Law- serves a greater community as opposed to helping one patient at a time

WHO: Hepatitis - Strategic directions

Let's face it...
We practitioners are perpetuating the problem
It's time we talk about this

Join us in the upcoming TweetChat on 1 September 2016, 20:30 SAST, when we discuss antibiotic resistance and ICT. Tell us what you'd like to ask our experts. Hashtags to follow:

A broader look at lobbying public health policy...
Health is beyond Health...

South Africa’s food industry, forthcoming ‘sugar tax’ & more – With Dr.... We were join by Dr. Miranda Moloto who presented some compelling arguments on the urgent multi-sectoral collaboration needed in promoting wellness...

And my work is...
Finding the adolescents who are living with HIV. Counseling and keeping them on treatment...

Finding out about my HIV status at 13 AIDS2016: Being a teen is hard enough, but for Bongani Radebe, it also meant discovering that he had been born with HIV

Rwanda set to lead the EHealth narrative while we haggle over rules that don't affect humanity!

Rwanda and South Korea collaborate on eHealth It’s another eHealth step for Rwanda. An article in the New Times says Rwanda’s Ministry of Health has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Republic of South Korea.

Fresh eHealth strategies provide big opportunities African countries are producing National eHealth Strategies. In the last two years, announcements have come from Burundi, Mauritius and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Countries with strategies already in place include Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, South Arica, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and some have taken it…

It takes...
1. one caring burns surgeon,
2. Multiple clinics with over-stretched medical officers.
3. A burnt patient ..to know that help has gotta be on the finger tips please!!!
A practical mHealth solution that started on Twitter

Home - SA BURN UNIT SA BURN UNIT ... because once upon a time, in the not so distant future, each and every burn injured patient, was supported and cared for in the right way, by the right team, in the right place, at the right time...   and they all lived happily ever after... Background on SA BURN UNIT …

I am stoked majorly‼️
Sista in public health publishes a magazine!
So my dream is not an impossibility after all!
I'm a writer with a small "w" then😀

How this health worker transitioned into a media entrepreneur - How We Made It In Africa ‘I had no know-how in publishing, so my biggest challenge was figuring out how to start a magazine and the business of running one.’

Scaling...eLearning EHealth.
The movement gains momentum

Living Goods

In 1980 we understood little about HIV. Today- we have so much insight on HIV, one can safely say we are able to manage the disease.
With HIV, countries put effort in
capacity development,
ARV roll out,
Behavioral change

We don't see the same level of effort into mental health!
How do we spend our mental health budget?

"...there can be no HEALTH without mental health!"
So why the disparity in health services expenditure?

Has to be on the shelf of every African public health practitioner!
Getting it today

Eat African, lose weight A new book by dietician Mpho Tshukudu and City Press food writer Anna Trapido is encouraging South Africans to get back to eating nutritional, traditional African food, writes Grethe Koen.

A dream that has no choice but to be birthed...

Does the EU offer a collaboration model for Africa’s eHealth? eHealth in Africa faces considerable affordability, capacity and resource constraints. Is more collaboration between countries part of a solution? News Medical has a report on an EU consortium for a large-scale eHealth initiative to improve and provide coordinated care for tens of thousands of chron...

Yoga anytime!
Drains sinuses, disperses cluster headaches, treatment for dysmerrhoea
Restorative yoga has gently brought me through a fractured ankle.
Treatment for insomnia

Safest form of exercise I'm aware of...also depends on how much you are willing to shed your ego as you take off the shoes to step on the mat.

Yoga heals

Yoga for Healing: Why Western Doctors Are Now Prescribing Yoga Therapy With a growing body of research proving yoga’s healing benefits, it’s no wonder more Western doctors are prescribing this ancient practice to their...

How we got here...

The Early History of Regulated Health Care [Editor's Note: This Q & A with Dr. Michel Accad, M.D. on the economic history of modern medicine covers the "pre-Flexner era" to the Great Depression. Part 2 will feature the period from the the Great Depression to today.]

World Bank Building a world free of poverty on a livable planet.

And... The many other possibilities in healthcare impact!

R9 billion needed to close contraception gap More than 20 million young women are not accessing contraception globally, resulting in about 10 million unintended pregnancies each year, according to a new report by US reproductive health and ri…

Because EHealth is changing your healthcare experience....yes

eHealthALIVE announces its partners eHealthALIVE has confirmed new partner MEASURE Evaluation Strategic Information for South Africa (MEval-SIFSA) will join the African Centre for eHealth Excellence (Acfee) and eHealthNews to make the event a success. It was announced on the event’s website Friday 13 May. Other website updates include...

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Recap: HFG at USAID's Global Health Mini-University 2016 - HFG

Will it change?

Africa’s GDP numbers might not be up to scratch for healthcare Gross Domestic Product (GDP), an estimated value of all the goods and services produced by a national economy has been a common measure since it was devised in 1939 by Maynard Keynes, the famous economist who gave his name to Keynsian economics. He described it as calculating the “Maximum current ou...

When Occupational health is valued...
Hoping the right professionals are convened to tract down all cases, to verify presence of silicosis AND to ultimately get compensation.
The basis of our science is all about protection of health...if that fails, can the people be properly compensated.
Dignity. Health Justice. Ubuntu

Silicosis case: Miners hope for speedy settlement, dignity to be restored The court ruled that workers can start a process of claiming compensation from gold mining companies.

Winning the HIV battle

BREAKING>> South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announces SA to move to universal test & treat in September, allowing HIV+ people to access treatment immediately after diagnosis http://bit.ly/1Wllbvf

This is when a stately man would arise and say: I was wrong!
We are living the consequences of Mbeki's error on a science he knew very little about. Another example of how important it is to stay "in your science" even if means losing political points. Min Manto has no credibility in the face of all this. And everyone else in the party that felt they had to "support" HIV DENIALISM.
We would forgive you Pres Mbeki- own up.
We do public health, WE saw the devastation- believe us!
Zweli Mkhize's article is an important piece of literature.

Dear Mbeki, now is the time to apologise for Aids denialism Thabo Mbeki’s renewed defence of his Aids denialism has moved former health MEC Zweli Mkhize to speak out about the hurtful memories from a time he thought had long since been buried...