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A PRIVATELY owned medical centre has opened in Cosmo City, treating up to 70 patients a day for common ailments and chronic illnesses.
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A CLEANUP of Denver Hostel and an education campaign that spread to the surrounding informal settlements were held.
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EDUCATION is the focus of Joburg's World
Aids Day, with door-to-door and office-to-office campaigns on the cards.
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WITH
more people being infected with measles, the City is again urging people to get
vaccinated. Its campaign targeting children and youth is ongoing.
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THE City has started a vaccination campaign at schools and crèches in response to the rise in confirmed measles cases in Joburg.
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THERE has been a sharp spike in measles
infections this month, prompting the City's health department to issue an
immunisation call.
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CITY officials visited busy inner city
clinics to gauge the response to National Child Health Week - and came away
impressed.
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NUTRITION, immunization and vitamin
deficiency among children under six will be targeted during the City's Child
Health Week campaign.
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MORE cases of H1N1 flu are being reported, and in response the City has stepped up its education campaign on treatment and prevention.
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WHILE the public has been urged not to panic, the government has set up a hotline for swine flu enquiries.
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WITH fewer than a hundred reported cases of swine flu in Johannesburg - and no deaths - the health department is calling for calm.
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TWO new vaccinations have been added to the state schedule, which the City will administer free of charge to children during immunisation awareness week.
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HEALTH care in Soweto's
Protea Glen will be much easier with the opening of a multi-million rand
clinic. Nine staff will be on duty.
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AN antiretroviral treatment centre, providing
free medication, has been opened in the Malvern Clinic, to treat people with
HIV and Aids in the deprived areas on the eastern edge of the city.
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THE Heart to Heart Foundation has given
over a million rand to the Walter Sisulu Paediatric Cardiac Centre for Africa, and 11 very sick children will benefit.
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PLANS are being put in place to contain any outbreak of swine flu in Johannesburg as the health scare sweeps across the world.
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EDUCATION and awareness campaigns are run during TB Month, highlighting the importance of being tested and then taking the medication to stop the pandemic in its tracks.
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ALTHOUGH some cases have been reported, City health officials assure
residents there is no outbreak of meningococcal disease in
Johannesburg.
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THE City and the province have joined
forces to allay fears of a meningitis outbreak, and are rolling out an education
campaign focusing on the diseas.
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STRICT testing and analysis of water - and education campaigns by the health department - have kept cholera at bay.
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