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Bophelo ba Elvis lemong tse tharo

Bekeng ena Khopotso Bodibe wa tshebeletso ya ditaba ya Health-e, o re isa motsaneng wa Maupye, Limpopo, moo re tla teana le moshemanyana eo e sa le mo qetela lemong tse batlang di ba tharo tse sa tswa feta ha a lekola maphelo a bana ba dikgutsana ka mora hore batswadi ba bona ba nkuwe le lefu la Phamokathe.

Nursing exodus hits E.Cape

The lure of foreign currency combined with tough working conditions and poor salaries is contributing to the exodus of South African nurses from our health services. The BBC recently reported that South Africa rates second after the Philippines as top supplier of nurses to the UK. Health-e visited the Eastern Cape to find out more about the shortage of nursing staff.

For love and money

In the remote villages of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, an innovative pilot project on gender and AIDS awareness offers rural women an opportunity for empowerment.

Eastern Cape – Health Care Crisis

Huge staff shortages and weak primary care are the two most pressing problems in the Eastern Cape health system, but there are signs of improvement in provincial management.

E.Cape’€™s health gap

Social services in the Eastern Cape have been notoriously under-resourced for decades. The promise of a ‘€œbetter life for all’€ that came with the first democratic elections in 1994 has not always held true. In the health sector, shortages of medicines, bed linen and health workers themselves, continue to plague the health system. So is there any reason to hope? Health-e News Service visited Livingstone Hospital, Nelson Mandela Academic and Umtata General Hospitals and Cecelia Makiwane to find out.

Young adults more prone to HIV infection

The largest survey ever conducted amongst South African youth shows that young women are bearing the brunt of the HIV and AIDS pandemic with one in 4 women aged between 20 and 24 testing HIV positive, compared to one in 14 men of the same age. The survey, conducted by the University of the Witwatersrand’s Reproductive Health Research Unit and commissioned by loveLife, shows that by the age of 23, one in five young South Africans is HIV positive.

Gauteng rollout countdown – Part 2

In our second feature looking at how some of the of the centres earmarked to provide HIV and AIDS treatment under the government’€™s roll-out plan, Health-e News Service visited the adult AIDS clinic at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, and met Dr Alan Karstaerdt, Director of the centre.

Ditokisetso tsa meriane ya Phamokate Gauteng ‘€“ Karolo 2

Tlalehong ya rona ya bobedi ho bona ka moo dipetlele le ditleniki di itokisetsang ho qala ho hlokomela bakudi ba Phamokathe ka meriana ya antiretrovirals ka tlase ho lenaneo le letjha la mmuso, Health-e News Service e ile ya etela tleniki ya batho ba baholo ya Phamokathe, e sepetleleng sa Chris Hani Baragwanath. Teng ba ile ba buisana le Dr Alan Karstaedt, molaodi wa tleniki.

Gauteng rollout countdown ‘€“ Part 3

In our third and final focus on how public health centres are gearing up for the AIDS treament roll-out, Health-e News Service, visited the Johannesburg General Hospital.

Ditokisetso tsa meriana ya Phamokathe Gauteng – Karolo 1

Ka letsatsi la boraro ho tloha kajeno, ka la 1 Mmesa, profense ya Gauteng e tla be e qala ho fepa batho ba kulang ka mafu a Phamokathe meriana ya mahala. Dipetlele tsa Johannesburg, Chris Hani Baragwanath, Helen Joseph, Coronation le Kalafong ke tsona tsa ho qala tse tlang ho fana ka thuso ena. Kgweding tse robedi tse latelang ho tla bulwa ditshebeletso tse ding tse leshome le metso e robedi hare ho profense. Khopotso Bodibe wa Health-e News Service o re tlisetsa tlaleho ena ya ho qala ho tswa ho tse tharo, ka mora hore a etele tse ding tsa ditshebeletso tse tlang ho bulwa ka labone.

Tshebeletso ya meriana ya Phamokathe Gauteng ‘€“ Karolo 3

Tlalehong ya ron aya ho qetela e hlahlobisang ditokisetso tsa dipetlele le ditleniki tsa mmuso Gauteng ho bula ditshebeletso tsa ho hlokomela bakudi ba Phamokathe ka meriana e kokobisang lefu lena, Health-e News Service e etela Johannesburg General Hospital.

Gauteng rollout countdown – Part 1

On the 1st of April, the province of Gauteng will for the first time see HIV and AIDS treatment made available to the general public. The Johannesburg, Chris Hani Baragwanath, Helen Joseph, Coronation and Kalafong hospitals will be the first in line to roll out the service. Eighteen other centres will follow over an eight-month period. In the first of a series Health-e News Service looks at what preparations some of the centres are making.

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