Health e News
Seven of the nine provinces recently presented their health budgets to the portfolio committee in Parliament. Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal have still to appear. Health-e sat in on the presentations.
Government and pharmacists squared up in the Cape High Court in June, but should consumers be signing petitions in support of their corner pharmacies or should their biggest concern be whether they are paying a fair price for medicine?
Hospitals and clinics in rural towns of the Northern Cape have teams of dedicated health workers who assist community service health workers. Health-e visited the Garies Primary Health Care Clinic and spoke to Sister Pierrette Rossouw, who says that health care in the region has improved immensely in the past 10 years.
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In the last Living with AIDS feature, we heard Nonhlanhla Kubheka’s views on South Africa’s turbulent journey to the era of AIDS treatment. This week, she tells just how her health has started failing her.
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Tlalehong e sa tswa feta ya Living with AIDS, re utlwile ka maikutlo a Nonhlanhla Kubheka ha a bua ka leeto leo Afrika Borwa e le tsamaileng ho tla fihla mothating ona moo batho ba nang le tshwaetso ya Phamokathe ba fumantshwang meriana e kokobetsang matal a kokwana hloko ya HIV. Bekeng ena re utlwa ka moo Nonhlanhla yena a seng a qadile ho kula ka tshwaetso ena.
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Nineteen-year-old Sanda Mlobi is one of millions of young South Africans who are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Sanda is HIV negative but her boyfriend died of an AIDS-related illness last year. She says her boyfriend would have never infected her with HIV because he always insisted on having safe sex even before he found out about his HIV status. Health-e News spoke to Sanda and asked her about the importance of condom use as a young person.
Government claims its long-promised regulations aimed at curbing alcohol abuse will ‘soon’ be published for public comment. But how should it deal with excessive drinking when alcohol is so much part of South African culture?
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Ngwahola ka yona nako ena, Nonhlanhla Kubheka, a dilemo tse ka nnqane ho 40 a bile e le mme wa bana ba ba babedi, e ne e le wa ba bang ba etsang ditletlebo ho mmuso hore o fumantshe batho ba kulang ka Phamokathe meriana e mona e fokotsang matla a tshwaetso ya kokwana hloko ya HIV. Mona re buisana le yena ho fumana maikutlio a hae ka leeto leo Afrika Borwa e e tsamaileng ho tla fihla mothating ona moo meriana ena e seng e fumaneha.
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This time last year, Nonhlanhla Kubheka, a 40-something year-old single mother of two, was among those urging government to provide treatment for those people living with HIV/AIDS. Health-e News Service spoke with Nonhlanhla Kubheka and looks at how far we’ve come.
Teenage pregnancies, alcohol abuse and poverty are key health concerns in the Northern Cape, the country’s largest and sparsest province.
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Tuesday last week was International Children’s Day. It was also the day on which we heard the news that government had instructed all provinces that had begun implementing an HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Plan to stop enrolling any more children for treatment. Health-e News Service takes a look at the supply of antiretroviral drugs in the public health sector.
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Support from friends and family can make all the difference to people living with HIV/AIDS. Lulu Sibam, who together with her husband and child is now on ARV therapy, speaks warmly of the encouraging role played by her family and parents-in-law.