GEMS members are invited to attend the 2012 Annual GEMS Symposium. It will take place from 15-16 August 2012 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.
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Suppliers that have already registered on our database do not have to reapply, unless any of their contact details or services they provide have changed in the last year.
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The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), Registration Number 1598, was registered in terms of the Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998 with effect from 1 January 2005 as a restricted membership medical scheme for public service employees and employees of participating employer groups.
The services of a suitably qualified and experienced service provider are required for the rendering of the following services to GEMS: Optometry Managed Care Services.
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GEMS advertisements will be airing on several major national radio stations in upcoming weeks.
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The innovative Government Employees' Medical Scheme (GEMS) has grown in seven years to become SA's second largest medical scheme and it provides cover for 58 percent of eligible government employees.
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The number of children in the world infected with HIV decreased by more than a quarter (26 percent) between 2009 and 2011, but more than 90 percent of the 3.4 million children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
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According to a 2001 study co-authored by US economist Jeffrey Sachs, the disease imposes an annual "growth penalty" of 1.3 percentage points on afflicted states, which includes most of those south of the Sahara, apart from South Africa.
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A new clinical trial in the area of HIV prevention for women is underway in South Africa. It is known as "The Ring Study" and it will test the long-term safety and preventive efficacy of an antiretroviral drug, dapivirine, when this is contained in a vaginal ring that releases the drug into the vagina in a sustained manner.
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More than 160 000 teen pregnancies were recorded in two years, according to Statistics SA, and the Department of Basic Education says it cannot solve the problem on its own. Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga told parliament in a written reply that although her department had taken "an active role" regarding teenage pregnancy.
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Teenage pregnancy statistics are always cause for alarm. The latest - that South Africa had 160 754 teen pregnancies in just two years (to July 2010) - is no exception. The figure was released by Statistics SA, which found the highest numbers of teenaged pregnancies in Limpopo Province.
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The Bidvest Group and government's Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) are investing a combined R30m in a University of Cape Town (UCT) start-up company that is pioneering a way of replacing heart valves that does not require open heart surgery.
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Unilever should be applauded for being one of the first food producers to call for salt reduction in its products. In 2009 Unilever, which makes soup, spices, pasta and stock cubes, committed itself to reducing levels of salt in its products to target a dietary intake of 6g of salt a day by the end of 2010, with a further reduction to 5g a day by 2015.
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