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Results for human+papillomavirus

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Talking about HPV and cervical cancer
Healthcare
Talking about HPV and cervical cancer

Issued by Bonitas 4 Mar 2024

Source: National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
Healthcare
Fatal diphtheria outbreak claims inmate's life in Western Cape prison

10 Nov 2023

Source:
Healthcare
Cervical cancer screening tools reach low and lower-middle income countries

19 Jun 2023

Source:
Healthcare
Cervical cancer can be beaten - the key is vaccinating young girls

Lynette Denny 11 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied.
Healthcare
Condoms ineffective against preventing STDs, research shows

21 Feb 2023

Reduce your risk of cancer - small changes for a big difference
Healthcare
Reduce your risk of cancer - small changes for a big difference

Issued by Intercare 1 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied.
Healthcare
Early cervical cancer detection is saving lives

22 Sep 2022

Source: ©supplied. Prof Lynette Denny
Healthcare
UCT Prof receives Order of the Baobab (Silver) for cervical cancer work in SA

22 Nov 2021

Source: Wavebreak Media Ltd –
Education
Amended 2021 school calendar will be retained

30 Aug 2021

A healthcare worker administers an Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to her colleague at Mutuini Hospital in Nairobi. Kenya on March 3, 2021. Photo by Dennis Sigwe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Healthcare
Kenya's Covid-19 vaccine rollout has got off to a slow start: the gaps, and how to fix them

Catherine Kyobutungi 9 Apr 2021

Kenya’s health minister Mutahi Kagwe next to the country’s first batch of Covid-19 vaccines at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu
Healthcare
The ins and outs of Kenya's Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan

Catherine Kyobutungi 8 Mar 2021

Muizenberg beach is eerily quiet on a hot summer’s day, 29 December 2020. If we want to save lives and life to go back to normal we need to embrace vaccines.
Healthcare
Here's how to fight anti-vaccine propaganda

GroundUp Editors 13 Jan 2021

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, regional head, Africa, World Health Organisation
Healthcare
Africa's fragile health system hit hard by Covid-19

9 Nov 2020

Cancer cases are on the rise in many parts of the continent. CI concept/Shutterstock
Healthcare
What needs to happen for better cancer prevention and control in Kenya

Gershim Asiki 3 Feb 2020

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme
Healthcare
Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

24 Oct 2019

Billion Photos/Shutterstock
Healthcare
Measles epidemic: parents reluctant to vaccinate their children need to hear of the horrors of forgotten diseases

Sarah Pitt 2 Sep 2019

Tips from Nigeria on teaching teens about breast and cervical cancer
Healthcare
Tips from Nigeria on teaching teens about breast and cervical cancer

10 May 2019

Cervical cancer is third-biggest killer among young women. Pittawut
Healthcare
Cervical pre-cancer rates down 88% in decade since HPV vaccinations began - first findings

Kevin Pollock 9 Apr 2019

Photo: Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Healthcare
Study: Vaccines prevent death and alleviate poverty

19 Feb 2018

IUDs lower risk of getting cervical cancer
Healthcare
IUDs lower risk of getting cervical cancer

10 Nov 2017

Immunisation and saving lives
Healthcare
Immunisation and saving lives

26 Oct 2017

Photo: PRI/Stephane de Sakutin
Healthcare
KZN kicks off chronic care programme for HIV patients

9 Oct 2017

Paediatricians back HPV vaccine
Healthcare
Paediatricians back HPV vaccine

29 May 2017

Source: Bhekisisa/Marina Bazo
Healthcare
Is 'all-in-one healthcare' a dream?

Mia Malan 16 May 2017

(L-R): Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz, Medical Director, Department of Applied Tumor Biology, Institute of Pathology,Heidelberg University Hospital; Elkanah Omenge Orang'o of Moi University, Nairobi; and Hermann Bussmann, Research Associate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Marketing & Media
How design thinking can save lives

30 Mar 2017

HPV vaccine is about cancer, not sex
Healthcare
HPV vaccine is about cancer, not sex

Nicci Botha 13 Mar 2017

Vaccine 90-100% effective against HPV
Healthcare
Vaccine 90-100% effective against HPV

1 Mar 2017

Africa 'Polio Free' campaign gains momentum
Marketing & Media
Africa 'Polio Free' campaign gains momentum

29 Apr 2016

[WorldImmunisationWeek] Fighting HPV and cervical cancer in Africa
Healthcare
[WorldImmunisationWeek] Fighting HPV and cervical cancer in Africa

28 Apr 2016

Pap smear overtaken by HPV screening
Healthcare
Pap smear overtaken by HPV screening

12 Jan 2016

September is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month - take that test
Healthcare
September is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month - take that test

10 Sep 2015

HPV as common in men as women
Healthcare
HPV as common in men as women

28 Jul 2015

Blood, saliva prototype finds most oral cancers
Healthcare
Blood, saliva prototype finds most oral cancers

25 Jun 2015

Single dose of vaccine may prevent cervical cancer
Healthcare
Single dose of vaccine may prevent cervical cancer

17 Jun 2015

Multi-strain vaccine for HPV, suitable for girls, boys, women, men
Healthcare
Multi-strain vaccine for HPV, suitable for girls, boys, women, men

28 Jul 2014

Healthcare
GSK, GAVI Alliance to supply HPV vaccine to poor countries

9 May 2013

Healthcare
Foundation launches CSI programmes to support cancer facilities

11 Feb 2013

Healthcare
Cost of cervical cancer vaccinations must come down in SA

4 Feb 2013

Healthcare
Half of all cancers are preventable: study

30 Mar 2012

Professional body on a mission to keep dentists in SA
Healthcare
Professional body on a mission to keep dentists in SA

26 Jan 2012

Healthcare
HPV home tests could improve cervical screening uptake

16 Mar 2011

Healthcare
Mass vaccination has reduced the incidence of genital warts by 60%: Report

Dr Ananya Mandal 6 Jul 2010

Healthcare
Differences in immune systems of men and women can impact diseases: Research

10 Jun 2010

Healthcare
Dept considers introduction of cervical cancer vaccines

23 Jul 2009

Healthcare
Male circumcision reduces risk of herpes simplex virus type 2 and human papillomavirus

27 Mar 2009

Healthcare
Cervical cancer month: Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in South Africa

Issued by MSD Public Relations 28 Aug 2008

Healthcare
New data reveals impact of deadly human papillomavirus in Latin America, Caribbean

14 May 2008

Healthcare
Mothers' Day: Protecting tomorrow's mothers

Issued by Fleishman-Hillard Johannesburg 9 May 2008

Healthcare
Call for equal access to cervical cancer treatment for all women and girls

10 Mar 2008

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