The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) recently released its Annual Report for the 2008 financial year. The scheme, which is registered as a restricted membership medical scheme for public service employees only, also announced that it now had well over 360 000 principal members, culminating in more than one million beneficiaries being covered.
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Strains of Influenza have baffled researchers ever since the first human flu virus was isolated for research purposes in the 1930's. We spoke to an expert to try and explain the behaviour of the virus that causes Influenza.
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While South Africa's HIV prevalence rate remains stable at 11 percent, there have been significant reductions in HIV among children and young people.
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Nicole Johnston meets an inspiring campaigner at the Oxfam-supported Global Citizen's Summit on HIV/AIDS. Catherine Mwayonga is a formidable woman: she is a teacher, a grassroots activist, and the mother of six. She is also blind and HIV positive.
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