Social workers in short supply in South Africa
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At the Roodepoort Child Welfare Society, their caseload has risen from between 60 and 80 a year to well over 1,000.
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Arthritis sufferers across South Africa have been inundating call centres and pharmacists in the wake of the shock withdrawal of their medication by the manufacturers of the most widely used drug treating the disease.
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Not enough people are aware of a government fund to help the UK's poorest citizens, a report says.
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African health workers aren&#39;t just being lured away by better salaries in rich countries. They are fleeing squalid and unsafe workplaces and staggering workloads.
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South Africa has unveiled plans to halve the number of people being infected with the AIDS virus within five years by persuading youngsters to delay the start of their sex lives.
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Â· 281,000 in need get no aid in life-sustaining tasks Â· Another 450,000 receive insufficient assistance
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A critical global shortage of health workers is getting worse, prompting a &quot;fatal migration&quot; of desperately needed doctors and nurses from poor countries
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SOWETO, South Africa  - South Africa is scouring the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people about the struggle against white rule.
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ELGIN VALLEY, South Africa -- When South Africa held its first fully democratic elections in 1994, Patrick Kraukamp, a day laborer, was just starting a job as a forklift driver at the Paul Cluver wine estate in this lush mountain valley.
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An estimated 3,800 people under age 24 go homeless each night in New York City, but they blend in so well they are hard for social workers to find, according to the city's first-ever census of homeless youth.
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A critical shortage of healthcare workers and restrictions on prescribing life-saving drugs are crippling the war on HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: That members have not delivered on Gleneagles is not in doubt. But Make Poverty History made aid delivery seem too simple.
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If the South African National Blood Service were to stop using race as one of its criteria for screening potential donors for HIV, the number of people receiving HIV-contaminated blood could rise from two or three a year to as many as 100, the service&#39;s
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Employers are learning that victims of violence are often reluctant to seek help.
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Half the world&#39;s 2.8bn workers are trapped in jobs that leave them and their families struggling to survive on less than $2 a day, with little prospect of escape from grinding
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Rural women have fewer resources to help them cope with and understand the menopausal transition.
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Mining and manufacturing have been hardest by the economic fall out from HIV and Aids in South Africa.