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As the new year gets started, and we embark on new goals for 2019 , the National Council Against Smoking urges smokers who have given up to resist the urge pick up the habit again. The National Council Against Smoking provides a telephonic quit line counselling service which helps people to give up smoking. Each January there is a surge in the number of calls from people who want help to give up smoking. Savera Kalideen, Executive Director of the National Council Against Smo

With more than 7 million people living with HIV, South Africa is home to the world’s largest HIV epidemic. About 3.4 million people are on HIV treatment – the largest of any country in the world – and as coverage continues to improve, this number will continue to grow. The government’s decision to prioritise the roll out of anti-retroviral treatment over the last 15 years has been one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. For hundreds of thousands of people living with H