Community health organisations and activists say female condoms are scarce,
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Community health workers deliver medication to elderly FS patients
Molefi Sompane
The Free State health department recently launched a programme to have medication for chronic conditions delivered to elderly patients’ homes. Deliveries will be made by health assistants or community health workers. These are usually community members who are trained in specific interventions such as health promotion and treatment literacy. In
FS patient humiliated and body shamed by transport driver
Molefi Sompane
“Wheelchair breaker! Fatty boom boom!” These are the words hurled at 42-year-old Nomakhephu Nelane when she had to board the patient transport to transfer her from Pelonomi to Botshabelo Hospital in August 2023. She has kidney failure and it is difficult for her to move around. The driver was getting
J&J lifts patent on MDR-TB drug but it may be years before South Africa benefits
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) recently announced that it would lift patents on the life drug bedaquiline. Bedaquiline is a key component in the cocktail of drugs used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) which develops when the TB bacteria build resistance to two of the strongest anti-TB drugs. J&J
Prevention is needed on all fronts to stem the tide of new HIV infections
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
New HIV infections are still a major driver of the epidemic. According to UNAIDS adolescent girls and young women are disproportionately affected. Around the world, this population group accounts for about 4000 new infections every week. In South Africa, where the highest number of people with HIV live, new infections
Access to safe abortion is still a major challenge for women in rural areas
Precious Mashiane
South Africa has one of the most liberal abortion legislation in the world. But this has not translated to easy access to abortion. Many women still struggle to get the services. fWhen they do, they are faced with bad attitudes from healthcare workers, as well as stigma. In June 2021,
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