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Every week, a number of mineworkers who fall sick while on duty are laid off work. They are told to go home because they are no longer useful.
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As journalists, we are supposed to tell the stories of our time. Some of those stories we tell very well, others we do to death but many we simply ignore.
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A deadly new strain of drug-resistant TB presents an additional burden for overworked staff at KwaZulu-Natal’s only MDR TB hospital.
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In nearly three years, 18 000 newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients have passed through the TB Care Centre at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, in Soweto. Most of these people would not have known where to receive treatment.
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As HIV infection rates increase, it is projected that so too will the incidence of TB – the most common opportunistic infection in people living with HIV and AIDS. And the dual epidemic presents real challenges for the health system.
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Lack of adherence, poverty and the rural nature of the Eastern Cape province are the main problems that make curing of TB a major challenge. Health MEC Bevan Goqwana says many people in rural areas quickly develop resistance and succumb to TB because they do not take their medication properly. This audio is in IsiXhosa.
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Using their last rands, patients keep returning to the hospital in the hope that it will be their turn to get medication, but the pharmacist is only dispensing for 10 patients a week.
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The death toll of people living with AIDS is increasing on a daily basis in Mthatha and the surrounding rural areas in the Eastern Cape. Those who’re dying are in desperate need of antiretrovirals.
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A children’s centre formed 12 years ago as a school for farm workers’ children in Boksburg, on Gauteng’s East Rand, is gradually being forced to rise up to the challenge of more social problems, including HIV and AIDS.
It is natural that people will only discuss personal matters with people that they feel comfortable with. That is why HIV peer educators in the workplace are important both to educate fellow employees and to help management respond better to HIV and AIDS. But results of a year-long survey show that they often work under challenging circumstances.
Over-crowding and long queues are part of daily life for Diepsloot residents seeking primary health care at the Johannesburg informal settlement’s O.R. Tambo clinic. And staff shortages are the main fuelling factor.