| SOUTH AFRICA: National HIV testing campaign disappoints |
 MANZINI, 7 September 2010 (PlusNews) - South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, is trying to pull off the most extensive global HIV testing campaign but the ambitious initiative is facing some daunting realities.
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| SWAZILAND: Task-shifting could improve HIV treatment and prevention |
 MANZINI, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health, the failure to do so is compromising scale-up of the antiretroviral (ARV) programme.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Strike sends XDR-TB patients home |
 DURBAN, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Striking public health workers in South Africa have virtually shut down King George V Hospital, a referral facility in the port city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province, which specializes in caring for and isolating patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR)-TB.
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| GLOBAL: New two-hour TB test |
 JOHANNESBURG, 3 September 2010 (PlusNews) - A new, accurate, easy-to-use test can diagnose tuberculosis (TB) - including drug-resistant strains of the disease - in less than two hours. It has the potential to save thousands of lives in developing countries, where current tests are often unreliable, take weeks to process, or are simply unavailable.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Survivor's guide for non-striking health workers |
 JOHANNESBURG, 2 September 2010 (PlusNews) - Public sector strikes in South Africa have become so common in recent years that people are asking if plans should not be put in place to prevent the disruption of HIV and tuberculosis [TB] treatment, and prepare health workers.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: More sterilizations of HIV-positive women uncovered |
 JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to conceive, she and her boyfriend consulted a doctor.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Strike jeopardizes HIV treatment |
 JOHANNESBURG, 24 August 2010 (PlusNews) - A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as industrial action disrupts treatment programmes.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Communities debate microbicide results |
 JOHANNESBURG, 23 August 2010 (PlusNews) - The recent release of positive results from a microbicide trial in South Africa have kick-started discussions between scientists, activists and community workers about the quickest and most responsible way of getting a product into women's hands.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Nevirapine linked to HIV treatment failure |
 JOHANNESBURG, 20 August 2010 (PlusNews) - One of the cheapest and most commonly used drugs for treating HIV in Africa - nevirapine - has been associated with an increased risk of treatment failure in a retrospective South African study.
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| SWAZILAND: HIV threat "exaggerated", says King's brother |
 MANZINI, 18 August 2010 (PlusNews) - Remarks disparaging programmes to reduce HIV infections, made by Swaziland's second top-ranking traditional leader, have sparked disbelief and anger among AIDS activists.
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