Katharine Child
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Katharine Child
Published: May 11, 2016, 10:28 a.m.·
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Currently‚ patients have to have a CD4 count of 500 to qualify for antiretrorvirals. But the World Health Organisation recommends that as soon as a person tests HIV positive they should start treatment. This is even if they feel healthy.
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Katharine Child
Published: Aug. 29, 2012, 1:46 p.m.·
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The leading cause of death in seven SA prisons in 2010 was tuberculosis, but the programme to control the spread of the disease in prisons is "virtually non-existent", the Constitutional Court heard y
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Katharine Child
Published: May 3, 2012, 8:51 a.m.·
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Phumeza Tisile's favourite book, Redeeming Love, is about hope because that is what helps her get out of bed each day.
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Katharine Child
Published: May 3, 2012, 8:43 a.m.·
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South Africa's new national strategic plan for health, which will for the first time include treatment of TB alongside HIV, has been hailed for its forward thinking.
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Katharine Child
Published: May 1, 2012, 10:14 p.m.·
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Despite a request by non-government organisations for the drug to be made available for compassionate use, the Medicines Control Council has refused.
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