SA joins global bid to publish all clinical studies
Business Day | 29 April 2013
THE Medical Research Council (MRC) has signed the global AllTrials campaign to get pharmaceutical manufacturers and scientists to publish all their research on medicines, and not just the studies with favourable results.
The AllTrials campaign was launched in the UK in January by a group including the British Medical Journal, author Ben Goldacre, and the Cochrane Collaboration, to raise public awareness about the problem of unreported clinical trial data.
The publication bias distorts the...
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Mobile Xhosa translator helps the medicine go down
University of Cape Town | 26 April 2013
Get the message: Sixth-year medical student and president of SHAWCO Health Saadiq Moolla's Mobile Xhosa site provides medical translations for students and healthcare practitioners via cell phone.
It's a common problem healthcare practitioners face in a multilingual society: how to translate medical questions and ailments in another language accurately enough to provide correct diagnosis and treatment.
And it's one sixth-year medical student and president of SHAWCO Health...
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Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim awarded the Order of Mapungubwe
Health-e News | 26 April 2013
MEDIA RELEASE: Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA (Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa) was bestowed with the Order of Mapungubwe: Bronze by the South African State President on Freedom Day (27 April 2013) in recognition of her “outstanding work in the field of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis research and health policy development.” The Order of Mapungubwe is South Africa’s highest honour.
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Health publications awards for UCT students
The winners of the Emerging Public Health Practitioners Award for 2012, Nadia Hussey and Oluwatoyin Adeleke, flanked by the editors of the South African Health Review, Rene English (on far left) and Ashme Padarath (far right).
UCT health science students Oluwatoyin Adeleke and Nadia Hussey have won a prestigious award from Health Systems Trust (HST) for articles they submitted for inclusion in the South African Health Review (SAHR).
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NHI pioneers new payment system
Mail&Guardian | 26 April 2013
In the first of a two-part series about the NHI, Mia Malan reports on state plans to change the rigid reimbursement formula for private doctors.
About 350 private doctors have told the health department that they would like to sign contracts to work part-time at rural public health facilities in National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot sites, according to the department of health's director general, Precious Matsoso. She said most of them would start work in May.
"We...
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SA making progress in tackling HIV – Motlanthe
SANews.gov.za | 25 April 2013
South Africa is moving closer to reducing the infection rate of HIV, with the country having experienced a decline in Aids-related deaths in the last three years, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said.
Responding to a question by an MP in the National Assembly on Wednesday, on what progress the government had made in tackling HIV/Aids and TB, Motlanthe conceded that though the country needed to do more to tackle TB and HIV/Aids, several inroads had already been made.
Motlanthe, who...
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Durban gets International Aids Congress for second time
Durban had beaten London and the Turkish city of Istanbul in the race to host the International Aids Congress in 2016, the Durban KwaZulu-Natal Convention Bureau revealed on Tuesday.
The win is a coup for Durban as it will become the first city to host the global mega-conference twice. The city last hosted the event in 2000 when child Aids activist Nkosi Johnson famously addressed the conference and made an impassioned plea to the world to fight the scourge.
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No immunisation at Limpopo clinics, hospitals
Health-e News | 25 April 2013
The Department of Health and Social Development in Limpopo is urging everyone who was turned away from clinics and hospitals in the region because of medicine stock outs to go back and get assistance.
Nhlanhla Gumede, spokesperson for the Department said that logistical problems caused shortages of medication, especially immunisation medicine, in some of the clinics and hospitals in the province.
There was a public outcry in Limpopo after many parents were turned away from...
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World Malaria Day: Gold speeds up malaria diagnosis
Health-e News | 25 April 2013
It’s hard to imagine that gold is more than a rich person’s trinket and actually plays a role in healthcare. But tiny nano-particles of gold are being used in rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) that can identify malaria in 20 minutes, according to the World Gold Council.
Malaria kills more than 660,000 people every year according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), in part due to poor diagnosis.
“RDTs are cheap, costing no more than $1 per test, and are...
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40% of W Cape high school kids smoke
Health-e News | 25 April 2013
A third of high school pupils in the Western Cape are using tobacco, alcohol, and dagga, a survey by the Medical Research Council (MRC) revealed.
The research found that almost half (around 40 percent) of pupils in Grades eight to 10 smoked cigarettes, 35 percent drank alcohol, and 35 percent smoked dagga.
Around 37 percent of pupils surveyed started using tobacco before the age of 13, and 28 percent of pupils started drinking before this age, while 66 percent of pupils had...
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Community hopes SANAC meeting will strengthen commitment to HIV
Health-e News | 24 April 2013
In April all eyes were on Mpumalanga as the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) held its first plenary meeting for the year here.
This district has the highest prevalence of HIV of all 52 health districts in South Africa.
The SANAC meeting was closely watched by the community and civil society in this district who hoped that having the meeting in Gert Sibande will change the attitudes of political leaders and spur government departments to participate more actively in the...
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MSF calls for cheaper child vaccines
Health-e News | 23 April 2013
MEDIA RELEASE: On the eve of the high-level Global Vaccines Summit hosted by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that high prices for new vaccines could put developing countries in the precarious situation of not being able to afford to fully vaccinate their children in the future.
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