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Until now, state-funded ARV treatment has comprised three different pills taken at different times during the day. The new FDA combines the three key agents from these pills in a single pill that only needs to be taken once a day.
Although welcoming the FDAs as easier and more convenient for patients, activists and health professionals alike have warned that a stockout of the drug could have a catastrophic effect on the country’s public HIV/AIDS treatment programme - the largest of its kind in the world.

We are very happy to announce a new member to the Health4Men team. Hilary Twiggs has been appointed as a Health4Men Training Coordinator. Hilary has been a lecturer in nursing science at Stellenbosch University; she has very significant skills in terms of both training and nurse mentoring. She will be based at the Green Point office and will coordinate all training in the Western Cape, in addition to consulting for Health4Men’s training and mentoring programme nationally.

Health4Men will be at The Rec Room on 25 April 2013 for the monthly HCT service from 18:00 to 21:00.

One in 10 South African men have been forced into sex by another man, according to a 2009 Medical Research Coun­cil study conducted among men between the ages of 18 and 49 in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Visit Health4Men at Cape Town Pride 2013 - Saturday, 2 March