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VHEMBE. ‘€“ Gloria Mathukha is used to be called ‘€˜crazy’€™ or ‘€˜mad woman’€™, but this doesn’€™t make it any easier. This 36-year-old woman from Matavhela village in Limpopo has a mentally disability and suffers constant discrimination from members in her community.
VHEMBE. ‘€“ Requests to the Department of Education to upgrade facilities at the Mafukani pre-school have fallen on deaf ears, and have eventually resulted in a four-year-old nearly losing her life after being bitten by a snake in the sub-standard toilet facilities at the school.
VHEMBE. ‘€“ A 19-year-old girl from Gumela village in Limpopo thought she was solving her problems by going for an abortion, but was actually causing more problems than she thought.
BETHLEHEM. ‘€“ Sanitation in the Bohlokong area in the Free State is so poor that it has started affecting the health of children in the Baipeing community in Bethlehem.
MGUNGUNDLOVU. – Challenge for Women is an organisation that empowers girls and women in their daily struggle against abuse.
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VHEMBE. ‘€“ The health services here has been unable to help a pensioner who is suffering from strange illness.
TSHWANE. – Patients at Kgabo Community Health Centre are fuming over the unavailability of x-ray service at the clinic which means they have to travel extensive distances to the nearest hospital to for an x-ray.
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New research shows an increased risk for breast cancer among women who smoke, especially those who start smoking before they have their first child.
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The much anticipated pill-a-day HIV prevention tool has been dealt a huge blow after a large scale study ‘€“ mostly conducted in South Africa ‘€“ found that most women did not adhere and take the one antiretroviral (ARV) drug daily.
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Smoke-free laws in England have resulted in a significant decrease in hospital admissions for asthma in children age 14 and younger.
SECTION27 has called for those politicians and managers who have been overseeing the systematic collapse of the Gauteng state health system to face the wrath of the law. Read the full report and a series of stories here.
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Researchers in the United States today said that they have identified a case of a ‘functional’ HIV cure in a child infected with HIV who began antiretroviral treatment within days of birth. The child has now been off treatment for over a year, and although HIV DNA has been detected at very low levels in the child’€™s cells, the virus is not reproducing. Read the full report from aidsmap here.