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The words we use to describe diseases tell us more about how people experience living with it. The isiXhosa word for tuberculosis, isifo sephepha, is a case in point. Understanding where it comes from can help to break down the stigma around the disease.
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Mashup Score: 1Bending the curve: What a decade-long roll-out of the anti-HIV pill can teach the world - Bhekisisa - 5 month(s) ago
What can the roll-out of a two-monthly HIV prevention injection learn from how the daily anti-HIV pill was introduced? Create demand, make the jab easy to get hold of and ensure it’s not stigmatised, write Wawira Nyagah and Mitchell Warren.
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The health department says ViiV Healthcare’s non-profit price for their anti-HIV jab, CAB-LA, is four times what it can pay. In 2022, just over 164 200 people in South Africa became newly infected with HIV. Can we afford to go without the shot?
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To help South Africa wipe out HIV by 2030, the country focuses on getting people who have a big chance of getting or spreading HIV access to testing and treatment. Researchers say that people with serious mental illnesses should be added to the list of these key populations in South Africa. Learn more.
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Mashup Score: 27Over a million SAs have used the HIV prevention pill - Bhekisisa - 6 month(s) ago
More than a million public healthcare users in South Africa had started to use the HIV prevention pill by the end of May, with over half doing so in the past two years, health department data shows. But what must we do to make the pill — and a two-monthly HIV prevention injection — easier to get?
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Mashup Score: 19Over a million SAs have used the HIV prevention pill - Bhekisisa - 6 month(s) ago
More than a million public healthcare users in South Africa had started to use the HIV prevention pill by the end of May, with over half doing so in the past two years, health department data shows. But what must we do to make the pill — and a two-monthly HIV prevention injection — easier to get?
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Mashup Score: 0How lessons from HIV programmes are keeping diabetes and cancer patients alive - Bhekisisa - 8 month(s) ago
HIV home visits in a Malawi village worked so well that the same visits are not also being used for conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer.
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“traditional medicine people in this area used to treat umbefu (asthma) and cough came from a tree called iphepha. So, literally, isifo sephepha is ‘the disease of the paper tree’” https://t.co/5fELr0cVjp