OPINION: In development, there are lots of statistics. Sometimes, the digits start to cross in your head, but every once in a while a number jumps out at you because it expresses a complicated truth in simple terms. Here’s one…
Social media, the movies and in-store displays continue to push South African children into taking up a deadly addiction. Friday, 31 May, is World No Tobacco Day and the aim is to highlight the enormous harm caused by tobacco use…
Health-e News Service is very proud to announce that our television producer, Fathima Simjee was named the Young Health Journalist of the Year last night, and our former radio reporter, Ayanda Mkhwanazi, was named Health Radio Reporter of the Year…
Dr Neliswa Gogela, a physician from the University of Cape Town, has become the first recipient of a R2-million grant that will enable her to study liver transplants at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Announcing the inaugural…
KUALA LUMPUR – Leading health philanthropist Melinda Gates has appealed to the world to make family planning a top priority and appealed to the 3 000 delegates at the 3rd Women Deliver meeting to help millions of women make their…
KUALA LUMPUR – Women remain the last to be fed, schooled and given access to healthcare, despite huge gains, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the 3rd Women Deliver meeting this week. Speaking via video, Clinton said the…
Bethlehem – The community of Vergeet Nie farm, about 30 km from Bethlehem, has a very limited water supply and makeshift toilets. “There is a problem of water supply here in this farm, despite being promised a water tank by…
For the past three years, there has been no rubbish removal in Imbali Unit 13 in Pietermaritzburg, and residents dump their rubbish all over the streets. Rubbish is all over the place and there is a strong smell, yet kids…
Residents in Kestell have resorted to throwing their garbage on the side of the streets in Kestell. Mpho Matobako one of the residents in Kestell’s new stands complained of the stench coming from the rubbish heap on the road side.…
Two years ago, 19-year-old Lindiwe Mkhasi had to drop out of school to parent her two younger siblings after their mother’s death. “In 2011 March, my mother died. The reason behind her dying was because she had AIDS and her…
Bethlehem – In March this year OurHealth reported on the poor water and sanitation in Bethlehem in the Free State that affects the Captain Charles community, better known as the Baipeing community. On a follow-up visit to the Baipeing community,…
“Almost 20 years of freedom and democracy, and we are still stuck with a system from apartheid,” says Katriena Baadjies,resident of Modderpoel in Victoria West. The bucket system probably one of the most undignified, unsanitary, unhygienic,and inhumane systems in South…
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Limpopo is threatening to boycott traditional initiation schools in the province if more lives are lost in these schools. In a statement issues this week, the league‘s secretary in the province Klaas…
Mpumalanga provincial department of aims to circumcise 500 000 males for the financial year 2013 For the province to reach this targets, it needs to circumcised 75 000 males per month, 18 750 per week and 3 750 daily .…
A water shortage at Tshilidzini Hospital at Tshisaulu village outside Thohoyandou in Vhembe, Limpopo is  posing a serious life challenges to the patients and staff members. This was revealed by concerned patients, nurses and the cleaners during an exclusive interview…