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Amy Green

Amy Green

Healthcare workers: “We are living in the shadows of death”

Frontline healthcare workers have been the hardest hit during the COVID-19 wave.
It’s been over a year since COVID-19 first hit South Africa. Since then, many people have been living in constant fear and many have lost loved ones. Frontline healthcare workers had no choice but to face their fears if they were to keep doing the life-saving work they were trained for. Amy Green, for Spotlight and Health-e News, and colleagues explore the emotional toll that South Africa’s third wave of COVID-19 is taking on healthcare workers.
Read More »Healthcare workers: “We are living in the shadows of death”

In Focus: Global strategy to end cryptococcal meningitis in people living with HIV

Cryptococcal meningitis is the second biggest killer of people living with HIV after tuberculosis (TB). Now, a global initiative, the Ending Cryptococcal Meningitis Deaths by 2030 Strategic Framework aims to get the gold standard drug to treat the disease – flucytosine – registered in countries that need it. By Amy Green for Spotlight and Health-e News.
Read More »In Focus: Global strategy to end cryptococcal meningitis in people living with HIV

‘Necessary,’ ‘terrible’ and ‘confusing’—Health workers on the frontline react to the J&J vaccine rollout pause

SA has too much vaccine
In this special report, Health-e News spoke to healthcare workers and experts in all nine provinces to get their reactions to the suspension of the COVID-19 Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine amid safety precautions. Sixteen of the 20 we spoke to already received the jab and this is what they had to say.
Read More »‘Necessary,’ ‘terrible’ and ‘confusing’—Health workers on the frontline react to the J&J vaccine rollout pause

‘Why do we have a COVID-19 vaccine before a TB vaccine?’ and other tough questions on #WorldTBDay

This World TB Day, international expert José Luis Castro answers the six tough questions about TB. Health-e News editor Amy Green asked what the real impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis (TB) has been, why TB doesn’t have a vaccine for half a century, and why TB funding pales in comparison to funding for COVID-19.
Read More »‘Why do we have a COVID-19 vaccine before a TB vaccine?’ and other tough questions on #WorldTBDay

World Down Syndrome Day: Girl with Down Syndrome runs successful business at age 17

On World Down Syndrome Day, made all the more important as this week cops who are charged with the tragic killing of Nathaniel Julies are set to take the stand, Health-e News reports on a young woman with down syndrome from Durban who at the age of just 17 was running a successful business.
Read More »World Down Syndrome Day: Girl with Down Syndrome runs successful business at age 17

One year of Covid-19 in SA: ‘I don’t wish anyone to go through what I went through’

One year of the Covid-19 pandemic survivors speak
In the year since the coronavirus was recorded in South Africa, more than 50,000 people have died and the country has been profoundly affected. Health-e News spoke to survivors of Covid-19, and those grieving the loss brought by the pandemic.
Read More »One year of Covid-19 in SA: ‘I don’t wish anyone to go through what I went through’

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