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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.
Gloria Vena has given up swatting the flies gathering around her face. Her eyes seem empty and distant as she stares out the front door of her house, the back of her neighbour’s rickety shack a few steps away from her makeshift front door.
Thulani Shezi’s New Germany Road settlement is one of about 500 shacklands in the eThekwini metro, and it only had a few portable toilets and a distant tap before the ablution block was built two years ago.
Residents in Diepsloot and Orange Farm struggle to get basic services such as clean water and sanitation.
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Health-e News Service welcomes the decision by Dr Matthias Rath to withdraw his defamation case against the agency, employees Anso Thom and Khopotso Bodibe and freelancer Siviwe Minyi (case number 11681/05) and to pay our legal costs to date.
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We pick up on the story of Vhuthamo, a shelter for orphaned and vulnerable children in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg that we visited last week. After three years of existence, the centre faces closure because the authorities have failed to register it as a home.
In Drieziek 6 ‘ Orange Farm, 60 km south of Johannesburg, not one household has running water, let alone a toilet.