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2 months ago | 
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Zano Kunene
In 2020, diabetes killed 32,000 people in South Africa — about 40% of them before they turned 65. It’s about 1.5 times the number of people who died of tuberculosis (TB), a curable disease, that year. Moreover, TB deaths have dropped by about two-thirds since 2010 — while diabetes has steadily become the number one killer in the country in the same decade. Like TB, diabetes — a preventable disease in many cases — doesn’t have to kill. Unlike TB, little is being done about it.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Sipokazi Fokazi |Zano Kunene
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Sipokazi Fokazi |Zano Kunene
BHEKISISA Antiretrovirals like dolutegravir help keep people healthy. But their use adds to global warming, which drives climate change. Switching to newer forms of medicines can help to lower the carbon emissions from these medicines. But we don’t have enough to make this a reality. Here’s what has to change. The anti-HIV drug dolutegravir is part of the world’s arsenal to end Aids as a public health threat by 2030.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Zano Kunene |Sipokazi Fokazi
BHEKISISA Almost 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector. Rethinking how hospitals run and deal with waste can get this figure down. But South Africa’s healthcare workers say regulations prevent them from doing this — and so playing their part in slowing climate change.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Sipokazi Fokazi |Zano Kunene
21 November 2024 - 04:30 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. TRIPLE VISION Reaching the 95-95-95 goals (for which the numbers currently sit at 86-89-93) doesn’t have to cost us the earth, analyses show. Stock photo. The anti-HIV drugdolutegravir (DTG for short)is part of the world’s arsenal toend Aids as a public health threat by 2030.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Sipokazi Fokazi |Zano Kunene
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Antiretrovirals like dolutegravir help keep people healthy. But their use adds to global warming, which drives climate change. Picture: NIAID/Flickr The anti-HIV drug dolutegravir (DTG) is part of the world’s arsenal to end Aids as a public health threat by 2030.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Zano Kunene |Sipokazi Fokazi
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Nearly 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the health-care sector, says a report launched at COP29, the UN’s annual climate change conference, on Tuesday — and money for dealing with the disastrous effects of changing weather patterns on people’s health is “urgently needed”.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
mg.co.za | Sipokazi Fokazi |Zano Kunene
Nearly 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector, according to a report launched last week at COP29, the UN’s annual climate change conference — and money for dealing with the disastrous effects of changing weather patterns on people’s health is “urgently needed”.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Zano Kunene |Sipokazi Fokazi
16 November 2024 - 11:46 Nearly 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector, says a report (https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nxIQCWnKZyhpzjJBCKiKHo5wb6?domain=lancetcountdown.org/) launched at COP29 (https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/HC_WCX6X1zI6BnwYuksxHWtyAg?domain=cop29.az), the UN’s annual climate change conference on Tuesday — and money for dealing with the disastrous effects of changing weather patterns on people’s health is “urgently needed”. ..
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
timeslive.co.za | Zano Kunene
07 November 2024 - 21:41 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. MAKING A DIFFERENCE Mentor mothers from the non-profit organisation One to One Africa after visiting a household in Luqoqweni village in the Eastern Cape. Travelling around Nyandeni, a local municipality in the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape, is a bumpy ride. Here, like inalmost the whole province, roads are mostly untarred.
