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News Archive April 2012


Invitation to Bid

GEMS requires the services of an Alternative Procurement Consultant.
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Attention: all pre-1992 Medihelp Pensioners ›

Due to the migration of Pensioners (i.e. those who retired before 1 July 1992) from Medihelp to GEMS, pensioners are advised that information sessions will be held. Click on the link below to view the venues.
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TB is top killer › 

Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one killer of the black population in South Africa, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR)..
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Half of HIV infected are child-bearing women ›

Of the 11 percent of the population infected, five million (89 percent) were adults aged 20 to 64, and 2.93 million (53 percent) were women of child-bearing age between the ages of 15 and 49, according to the SAIRR's latest SA Survey, using data from the Actuarial Society of SA.
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Chronic disease and trauma plague SA health system ›

HIV may be the most immediate threat to healthcare in the country but health data gathered from hospitals around the country shows that violence and lifestyle diseases are taking a grievous toll on the health system.  
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Birth control, HIV link ›

Women using hormonal birth control, especially progesterone injections, are twice as likely to be infected with, or transmit, HIV, the results of a study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal show..   
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SA's children most at risk of brain injury - and suffer rejection too ›

Traumatic brain injury kills thousands of South Africans every year, and children are most at risk. They are also about eight times more likely to die from brain injuries compared with their American counterparts.
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Patients 'need educating on rights, responsibilities' › 

The Health Professions Council of SA's (HPCSA's) acting CEO, Dr Kgosi Letlape, said yesterday that a decline in the levels of professionalism among healthcare practitioners and the increasing cost of medical negligence demonstrated the need for greater public awareness of patients' rights and responsibilities when accessing healthcare.  
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