Left to die? Time runs out for Tembisa patient
On 1 March, Johanness van der Nest was attacked while walking home from a local pub. Finding out what happened to Van der Nest next has become his daughter's obsession.
Laura Lopez Gonzalez
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Can this man save E. Cape’s OR Tambo District?
OR Tambo is one of the country’s worst performing health districts. A new man has taken the reigns as district manager and hopes his track record of transforming Khayelitsha can help him turn OR Tambo around.
Country charts first decline in maternal mortality
Deaths among pregnant women and new mothers may finally be falling in South Africa, but the proportion of these deaths due to an age-old disease may be rising, say experts.
Documents: Market inquiry into private healthcare
Recently released documents outline key dates and some of the process so far in regards to the Competition Commission's market inquiry into private health care.
Netcare litigation won’t slow health inquiry
A process to secure a replacement for KPMG in the Competition Commission’s inquiry into private health care costs is well under way following a Netcare court case, according to the inquiry’s chair former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo.
South Africa to move to earlier HIV treatment
It is not a matter of if South Africa will move to earlier HIV treatment, but when, says Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
When HIV is the ‘third wheel’ in a relationship
Although one pill a day can manage HIV, one young woman says there is still is not a pill for navigating love – and sex – in relationships where the virus is always the "third wheel."
South Africa celebrates 10 years of free HIV treatment
HIV treatment was introduced after a huge struggle, but this week South Africa celebrated a decade of free antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
Health dept. to pay community health workers, renew contracts
Days after Gauteng community health workers made good on promises to take their fight for payment to the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in a protest, the Gauteng Department of Health announced that almost 8 000 workers will be paid by month’s end.
Miners, families live between death and hope
South Africa’s first class action silicosis suit could win compensation for hundreds of thousands of miners and widows – and prepare the way for a class action suit against the mines for tuberculosis.
SADC to harmonise TB treatment, cross-border referrals
Southern African countries intend to harmonise tuberculosis (TB) treatment and create cross-border patient databases and referral systems to deal with the TB raging in the region’s mines.
Nurses to lead charge against DR-TB
In a country of more than 50 million people, it is hard to be a “first” but Ntombasekaya Mlandu is. She is the first nurse trained to initiate and manage multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients.