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Attitude change, treatment plans slice Aids claims |
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IMPROVED HIV/Aids treatment plans and Aids policies in the workplace have helped return more people to work, enlarging productivity, according to findings by life insurer Old Mutual.
The company said last week that its latest figures showed that the duration of Aids-related claims have remained short, in contrast to the early 2000s, as a result of more people returning to work relative to those who died.
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Infant feeding: TAC's position |
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Infant feeding practice for HIV-positive mothers has long been a controversial and difficult subject. In South Africa, clinicians have been divided between promoting exclusive breastfeeding (mainly in Kwazulu-Natal) versus formula-milk (mainly Western Cape and Gauteng). Recent studies have shown that the risk of transmitting HIV during breastfeeding can be reduced significantly by providing antiretrovirals (ARVs) to mothers or their infants.
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New HIV-vaccine tested on people |
Scientists from the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and Antwerp University have tested a new 'therapeutic vaccine' against HIV on volunteers. The participants were so to say vaccinated with their own cells.
The researchers filtered certain white blood cells out of the volunteer's blood, 'loaded' them outside the body and then gave them back. The immune system of the testees was better than before in attacking and suppressing the virus, the scientists reported in the top Journal AIDS. But they still cannot cure the disease.
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Practical info: Problems that interfere with good nutrition |
HIV/Aids may make it difficult to eat and digest food properly. Symptoms such as poor appetite, diarrhoea, nausea and mouth sores are often the result of immune system suppression, opportunistic infections and treatment side-effects.
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Redpeg training schedule 2012 |
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To see Redpeg's training calendar for 2012, please click on the link below:
Redpeg offers fully accredited public and in-house HIV/AIDS training programmes. Please contact Sandra Ncube at 011 476 5355 or sandra@redpeg.co.za for a quotation. |
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Concerns Over HIV Prevention Pill
Interesting news clip about Truvada.
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