Learning the hard way to love her body
As South Africans’ waistlines continue to grow, one Mpumalanga woman tells OurHealth about how weight problems have followed her through life like a shadow – and so did low self-esteem.
Cynthia Maseko
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Family helps father to recover from stroke
A brave and loving family refused to let their father give up on life after he suffered a stroke about a year ago.
Mpumalanga looks to strengthen health services through private-public partnerships
Eskom recently donated the first of two buses to be used to expand the school health programme in Mpumalanga. Now, the province may also be courting the private sector to ramp up HIV counselling and testing (HCT).
“My ignorance cost me my baby’s life”
When Phindile Mashaba was diagnosed with HIV she could not believe it. She says that disbelief killed her daughter.
Between black and white: Growing up with albinism
Like many teenage girls, Nombulelo Mlombo says she never felt pretty. Worse, she faced incessant teasing due to her albinism and her search for acceptance had grave consequences, she says.
Amnesty International launches campaign over Mpumalanga maternal deaths
Amnesty International has launched an online, write-in campaign targeting Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Pravin Gordhan. The campaign is aimed at improving allegedly deadly service delivery problems Amnesty International says are contributing to maternal deaths in Mpumalanga.
Sex work becomes cheaper and riskier
Stagnating economic growth has affected the sex work industry as sex workers in Mpumalanga report charging less for work that some say has become more dangerous.
Treatment Action Campaign marches on Mpumalanga clinic
AIDS lobby the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) recently marched to one Mpumalanga clinic to demand improved service delivery and a stop to medicine stock outs.
“I thought I was too young to have a chronic illness”
Cynthia Maseko, 31, is many things – a mother, wife and nationally published citizen journalist. She is also living with hypertension. She tells her story.
Mpumalanga district holds first “pride parade”
Mpumalanga’s Gert Sibande District recently made history as it held its first “pride parade” celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities.
Myths and dreams: The realities of epilepsy in rural South Africa
When Lusanda Ngwenya, 13, comes to – he is disorientated. He looks around at the faces of concerned family members and then becomes aware of a new pain somewhere on his body – maybe a knocked limb or a bitten tongue. He has just woken up from one of the seizures that accompany his epilepsy.
Baby allegedly stolen from Nelspruit hospital
New mothers at Nelspruit’s Rob Ferreira Hospital are on edge following the alleged abduction of a baby girl from the hospital this past weekend.