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Marta Darder and Andrew Boulle
This example is a composite of several patients' stories.
Xolani has been on antiretroviral treatment at MSF's clinic in Khayelitsha, South Africa, for three years - but now tests indicate that his treatment is failing. Xolani will have to be shifted from the first-line drugs he has been receiving to more powerful second-line drugs.
After 24 m...
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A Patient's Bill of Rights
Effective health care requires collaboration between patients, physicians and other health care professionals. Open and honest communication, respect for personal and professional values, and sensitivity to differences are integral to optimal patient care. As the setting for the provision of health services, hospitals must provide a foundation for understan...
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A shameful record of exploitation throughout the history of the NHS, with the UK reliant on other countries sending us doctors to meet our healthcare needs, was condemned by the chairman of the British Medical Association, Mr James Johnson in his keynote address to the BMA Annual Conference in Llandudno on 28 June. James Johnson highlighted the continuing shortage of doctors and said that over the...
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Johari Maluki
"Governments have a responsibility for the health of their people, which can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and social measures. A main social target of governments, international organisations and the whole world community in the coming decades should be the attainment by all peoples of the world, by the year 2000, of a level of health that will perm...
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Combat Aids Africa (CAAF) is a broad based NGO that was established in Nigeria in 1999 by a group of professionals with the goal of strengthening the campaign on HIV/ Aids prevention, care, support and human rights laws enactment. The organisation is involved in peer education programmes, including in-schools peer education in 10 secondary schools in Lagos State through its capacity building progr...
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The following lecture was delivered by Dr E.L. Bamgboye, consultant nephrologist, head dialysis and transplant unit at St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, at the inaugural National Awareness Programme on Kidney Failure, at Lagos University (Nigeria). The event was organised by Kidney Consultants International in June.
The incidence of kidney failure worldwide has been increasing at the rat...
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Dr Abdullah Ali, Manager, National Malaria Control Programme, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Zanzibar
The process of initiating and developing an appropriate national antimalarial drug policy in sub-Saharan Africa for a common disease, such as malaria, is a multifaceted undertaking. This is particularly true for countries faced by multi-drug resistant falciparum malaria with othe...
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Alexandra Calmy, AIDS advisor to the MSF Access Campaign
The AIDS virus has spread with lightning speed across the world since 1983. 40 million people are now living with HIV and AIDS is the major cause of mortality in Africa.
Like others, Medicins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) was slow to start providing antiretrovirals to our patients in developing countries. But we overcame our initial fears....
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CSIR's telehealth project - based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa - was selected as one of three winners in the health category of the prestigious Stockholm Challenge - an awards programme for pioneering information technology (IT) projects worldwide. The Tsilitwa project competed with close on 1000 others from more than 100 countries in six different categories, namely health, e-government, ...
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This year premiums and funds within the Prosperity Group will exceed R2billion, as its companies extend their services to more than 360 000 lives across Africa and operate with one of the most sophisticated Internet healthcare portals on the continent.
The Healthcare Journal speaks to Bertus Struwig, chief executive officer of Prosperity Africa, to find out how one goes about operating a re...
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Healthcare the SMART way
What would you say if you heard about a system that would reduce healthcare costs by 30% while improving service delivery across all healthcare value chain sectors? What if all client healthcare information to doctors and other health service professionals is available at the point of service securely? Does this seem to good to be true?
Introducing the revolut...
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Dr Bernard Tei Dornoo
Ghana, with a population of about eighteen million, is at the crossroads in the provision of healthcare to its citizens.
The mass exodus of healthcare professionals, particularly doctors, nurses and pharmacists, has recently beset the country to such an extent that it is seriously affecting both the public and private health provider.
There is therefore gr...
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Eradicating Polio
One of the most demanding environments on earth in which to deliver quality sustainable health care – Somalia – demonstrates huge needs, but also a striking determination to be pro-active in resolving its own situation. In this article from UNICEF Somalia about the challenges of health care provision, communication officer Julia Spry-Leverton describes how the effor...
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UGANDA
An overview of THETA
THETA (Traditional and Modern Health Practitioners Together against AIDS and other diseases) is a non-government organisation that has been working with traditional healers and biomedical workers since 1992. The organisation strives to foster collaboration between both biomedical and traditional medicine in healthcare provision, prevention and research. THETA ...
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