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Turning the Tide on HIV/AIDS |
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HIV Aids Initiatives continue to educate communities
Due to steady advancements in medical technology, HIV/Aids is no longer the automatic death sentence it used to be. While this fact is formally and rightly celebrated each year on December 1, World Aids Day, there have been equally significant, though arguably less heralded, advances in a host of other areas surrounding the dreaded disease.
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Scarce skills building and retention strategies for HIV/Aids organisations |
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“Harvest the students before they hatch”
By Dr Anna- Marie Radloff & Dr Gustaaf Wolvaardt
In survey after survey South African companies bewail the shortage of skilled professionals and its detrimental effect on the growth of the economy.
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Skills Development Summit 2011 |
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World's top mining group backs SA Skills Development Summit 2011
The world's biggest mining group BHP Billiton has thrown its weight behind the efforts to solve South Africa’s skills shortage crisis by sponsoring the Skills Development Summit to be held at the CSIR convention centre in Pretoria on 6-7 September.
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NABCOA’s general wellness services |
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Sustainable wellness at the workplace
NABCOA is a Non-Profit Organization that creates and supports mitigation strategies against HIV/AIDS at the workplace in Namibia. The organization has been in existence for many years and continues to offer HIV workplace services to its members. Members of NABCOA, who arecorporates, receive services that range from HIV, TB and general wellness testing. Membership base ranges from manufacturing companies to finance and insurance, fuel companies, banks, mines, hospitality, service industry, SME’s, local authorities and companies from other sectors.
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Leadership cleans up SA magazine ‘Oscars’ again
The 2010 MPASA PICA Awards took place on, Thursday, 11 November, at the Zip Zap Circus in Cape Town - considered the annual Oscars of the magazine industry.
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Sasria Chairman’s Charity Golf Day to Benefit Golf Development Board and Aids Orphans
“The children and the youth are our future”, says Sasria Executive Mr. Collin Macheke
Johannesburg - Sasria, South Africa’s leading special risks insurer hosted its annual Chairman’s Charity Golf Day on 11 May 2010 at the historic Johannesburg Country Club in Woodmead.
The tournament, which was hosted in the name of Chairman Cyril Ramaphosa, will benefit several charities and social development programmes supported by Sasria, most notably the South African Golf Development Board and Nurturing Orphans of Aids for Humanity (Noah).
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BMJ Charity Christmas Appeal
Please help support the work of Médecins Sans Frontières
Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ
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For the second year running the BMJ is proud to be launching a joint Christmas fundraising appeal with the charity Médecins Sans Frontières
Médecins Sans Frontières (www.msf.org.uk/) was founded by doctors and journalists in 1971 and is, in its own words, an independent international medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency medical assistance in more than 60 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care. MSF willbe among the first wherever in the world disaster strikes, but it also runs a programme of long term initiatives to improve the lives of the world’s poor and deprived.
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HIV/Aids impacts skills development |
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“An estimated 5.7 million South Africans are infected with HIV/AIDS, making South Africa the country with the highest number of people worldwide living with the virus. Drastic action is required by all South Africans to raise awareness around HIV/AIDS, break the silence and overcome the stigma associated with the illness,” says BANKSETA CEO, Max Makhubalo.
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Silicosis Awareness Road Show |
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MHSC launches it 2009 Silicosis Awareness Road Show
10 November 2009
The Mine Health & Safety Council (MHSC) launches the Silicosis awareness road show 4th November 2009. The road show aims to engage and educate mineworkers about Silicosis and preventative measures which they could personally take.
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Project generates income, boosts public hospitals
20 October 2009
Pretoria - The Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development has in the last financial year generated R76 million from a project which bridges the gap between public and private health sectors.
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Technilamp Wins Namibian UVGI Contract
Technilamp, a leading South African manufacturer and supplier of UVGI systems has just completed a contract to install Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) lamps at the Katutura State Hospital, Katutura Outpatient Clinic and the Walvis Bay MDR TB Clinic. Namibia is one of the world's two worst affected countries in terms of TB infections and fatalities and the UVGI systems have been installed in a bid to dramatically reduce the spread of the disease in the clinics as well as reduce the risk of contracting the disease by care givers and staff.
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