Community health organisations and activists say female condoms are scarce,
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Health workers in Gqeberha complain of TB drug shortage Â
Yoliswa Sobuwa
Clinics are issuing only seven days’ worth of Rifinah, a crucial TB treatment, instead of the usual month’s supply due to stock depletion at the local medical depot.
Technology makes it possible to diagnose diseases on the spot – but South Africa’s public healthcare system faces several obstacles
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Testing at the point of care – where the patient is being treated – saves time that would have been spent waiting for results to come back from a laboratory.
South Africa records another mpox death
Yoliswa Sobuwa
South Africa joins a growing list of countries currently facing an mpox outbreak. It’s a viral infection that spreads between people through direct contact with a person with the disease, or objects and surfaces that have been touched by a person with mpox.
Patients and staff left out in the cold as social development cuts funding to Westview rehab clinic in Florida
Palesa Matlala
This is part of a broader issue affecting other rehab centres. The Gauteng Care Crisis Committee is in discussions with the department, but no resolution has been reached.
Researchers are optimistic about the early findings of HIV prevention injection study
Ina Skosana
A trial conducted among over 5,300 adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and Uganda, showed zero HIV infections with the injectable lenacapavir, compared to daily oral drugs Descovy and Truvada.
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