Drug users scam community for next hit
Drug users in Mpumalanga’s Gert Sibande district are using younger boys to scam money from the community to feed their habit.
Cynthia Maseko
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Girl, 7, battles MDR-TB
Lindokunhle Zwane, 7, was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) two years ago and is now battling multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome: A mother’s regret
When Gugulethu Ngobeni was pregnant with her second child, she didn’t know alcohol could harm her baby. Now she and her husband wish they’d done things differently.
Snuff: Three women, one addiction
South African women are more likely than men to use smokeless tobacco, according to research. OurHealth talks to three women about their addictions.
Dogs eat aborted human foetus
A woman has told of her shock and revulsion at finding dogs in her yard eating a human foetus estimated to have been aborted at around four months.
“I finally said ‘enough’ to my abuser.”
Ntombi Shabalala, a 36-year-old domestic worker, is from a small community called Nyibe in Ermelo. She explains how she escaped an abusive relationship:
I’ve stopped hitting the woman I love
Vuyolwethu Samuel Shongwe is a 29-year old father of two girls and a husband. He and his family are from Gauteng but have been living around Nelspruit for two years. He tells about his history of violence against women:
“Rage almost killed me”
Zanele Mhlanga* , 31, from Ermelo in the Gert Sibande district is a mother of three, has been married for nine years and is a business owner. She was diagnosed with HIV two-and-a-half years ago, and believes she was infected by her husband. She tells her story.
Illness risk for poor who pick food off dumpsites
In Chief Albert Luthuli, which has an unemployment rate of 35.2% and many people living below poverty line of R283 per month, Kholina Minisi is one of many people vulnerable to serious disease because she is forced to find food for her family from the municipal dumpsite near Silobela township.
Living with eczema
It is estimated that around 10 to 15% of children suffer from infant eczema. It appears on most parts of the body but most often on cheeks and in the folds of the arms, the backs of the knees, wrists and hands.
The Mpumalanga province graduation ceremony for NIMART nurses
More than 800 nurses have graduated in Mpumalanga this month, of which 225 graduated as NIMART (Nurses Initiated and Managed Antiretroviral Therapy) nurses.
Living with genital warts
Phumzile Nkosi (36) has been living with HIV for 12 years, but the added complication of genital warts has made the past year tough.