Being diagnosed with diabetes is the beginning of a lot of changes to the way you eat, what you drink and some of those bad habits. In a hard-drinking country like South Africa, putting down the bottle may be one of the toughest challenges for people living with diabetes.
Exams, pregnancy and a new baby – life for 17-year-old Busi Sibande* had been hectic, which is why her family thought nothing of her strange behavior until the new mum was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Doris Nkosi, 35, says she spent years digging her own grave by smoking and neglecting her health until the words of her 5-year-old son changed all that.
Priscilla Mkhwanazi was always her mother’s favourite but being the apple of her mother’s eye came at a high price as she tells OurHealth’s Cynthia Maseko.
Sarah Masinga* was a sister, grandmother and a friend to many living with HIV in Daantjie. Sarah recently lost her months’ long battle with cervical cancer.
Life has been an uphill fight for eight-year-old Sonke Shongwe who was born paralysed from the waist down. For him and many disabled children across the country, getting a wheelchair is only the first step.
Growing up, Silindile Mkhwena says healers preyed on her family’s scant knowledge of her epilepsy. More than a decade later, she says she is still paying for society’s ignorance.
Grace Shabangu has been drinking and smoking more than half her life, will developing tuberculosis (TB) give her the will to change?
Residents of the small, rural Mpumalanga town of Vezinyawo said they were told to pay R2 to keep a municipal water pump working after the municipality would not pay R200 for prepaid electricity, residents allege.
It has been two years since Mpumalanga started its National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot site. Now the provincial department of health lays out progress in the pilot district.
To mark World AIDS Day, the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) Mpumalanga branch picketed outside a local clinic as the AIDS lobby continues to complain about poor service delivery.
Mary Mavuso,* 31, has been raped four times in her life. As the world marks the start of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, Mavuso talks to OurHealth's Cynthia Maseko about how she may found happiness now but her past continues to haunt her.
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