TAC and Cosatu devise AIDS action plan
Tamar Kahn The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and trade union federation Cosatu have devised a firm set of recommendations for government to tackle the AIDS crisis head on. Their proposals, which...
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Tamar Kahn After months of government debate over whether to provide antiretroviral medicines, the health department now faces the daunting task of complying with the cabinet's instruction to develop...
View ArticleGovernment paves the way for move to paperless hospitals
Tamar Kahn Science and Health Editor THE dog-eared clinic card may one day be little more than a curious historical artefact if government's ambitious plans to overhaul the way patient records are...
View ArticleHow master of political theatre put AIDS in spotlight
12 December 2013 BDLive ON JULY 9 2000, hundreds of delegates walked out of the 13th International AIDS conference in Durban in protest as then president Thabo Mbeki gave a speech confirming his...
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