Food services staff at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital claim that food preparation guidelines and menus designed by the hospital'€™s dieticians are not followed. Sometimes, patients are served rotten food.
Read More »Bara serves patients rotten food
Despite knowing the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of a child'€™s life, many new mothers often encounter challenges that prevent them from breast-feeding.
Read More »Challenges of breastfeeding
About 500 000 people are expected to benefit from a US$30million global project aimed at addressing non-communicable diseases. The project will be rolled out in four countries, including South Arica, and will have a special focus on diabetes.
Read More »Fighting the scourge of non-communicable diseases
The CEO of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johanna More, has unexpectedly given notice that she will leave her position next month. Her position was one of 90 hospitals CEO positions nationally that the Health Minister was looking to fill with suitably qualified people.
Read More »Bara Hospital CEO leaving
Despite reports of broken equipment such as cat scans at Leratong Hospital and the cancellation of operations because of a shortage of sterilisation products at Helen Joseph Hospital, the Gauteng health department says health services are improving.
Read More »Gauteng health dept says it’€™s recovering
About seven million South Africans suffer from some form of arthritis, with roughly three percent having a systemic and inflammatory form which affects more than the joints. This week, Health-e News Service visited Matilda Nkosi, a rheumatoid arthritis sufferer.
Read More »Surviving arthritisThe benefits of medical male circumcision have been proven to also extend to women. It has been shown that female partners of men who are circumcised have a less risk of contracting the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
Read More »Male circumcision benefits women too
A vaccine candidate which showed that it can protect against HIV infection by up to 31% when tested in Thailand three years ago will be further tested in South Africa as soon as next year.
Read More »South Africa gets ready for HIV vaccine trial
A Medical Research Council (MRC) study warns that as more people move into the cities, their health challenges will become dire. The community of Hospital Hill, in Johannesburg, is a case in point. More than 90 % of the residents live in urban poverty and are unemployed.
Read More »Health risks facing urban population
Seven out of every ten sex workers have been abused by police officials. A survey done by the Women'€™s Legal Centre, shows that sex workers report having been threatened with arrest or forced to sleep with police officials in exchange for their freedom.
Read More »Police brutality still very rife ‘€“ sex workers
Seventy-five percent of South African women will suffer from vaginal thrush, at least, once in their lifetime. And while the condition may not always be preventable, it is manageable with the correct treatment.
Read More »Understanding vaginal thrush
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in Gauteng says it will take the Health Department to court to force them to deliver quality health care to the citizens of the province should they fail to do so.
Read More »TAC demands better health services
Newly appointed Gauteng Health MEC has a huge task of ridding his department free of corruption. Democratic Alliance Health spokesperson, Jack Bloom says the department'€™s financial crisis is transparent of the corruption within.
Read More »Rid the health department free of corruption
: Great progress has been made in reducing early mother to child transmission of HIV in the country. A study by the Medical Research Council (MRC) shows that the national HIV mother to child transmission rate was approximately two point seven percent in 2011.
Read More »Progress in reducing mother to child transmission
Newly appointed Gauteng Health MEC, Hope Papo, is determined to turn things around in his beleaguered department. In an interview this week, the MEC expressed his dissatisfaction with the department'€™s current state of affairs.
Read More »MEC says change will come
