Doctor turns patient after contracting XDR-TB
It took one cough and a sputter to change the life of a West Rand doctor after she contracted extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) at Johannesburg’s Lerato Hospital.
Laura Lopez Gonzalez
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Political parties largely silent on major health issues
Ahead of South Africa's May elections, many of the country's major political parties have little to say about health issues in the country as only eight parties respond to questions from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
Political parties square off on NHI
To put health on the agenda ahead of May’s elections, the Treatment Action Campaign put some of South Africa’s major health issues to political parties. Here’s what parties said about the introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI).
KZN could prove HIV prevention science to world
While KwaZulu-Natal remains hard hit by HIV, a new study by the humanitarian organisation Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) may mean the province is turning the tide against the virus.
Measles: A short history of a deadly disease
An old Arabic saying cautions, “Count your children after the measles has passed.”
Scientists, mystery woman unlock path to new HIV vaccine
Known only by a number – CAP256 – one South Africa woman may hold the key to an HIV vaccine.
Community health workers remain unpaid
Despite promises of payment by the Gauteng Department of Health, some community health workers report that they have not been paid for their work as home-based carers, HIV testing counsellors and peer educators. For some, the delay means they have gone almost five months without pay.
The Eastern Cape cancer mystery
Many Eastern Cape children infected with HIV at birth are developing AIDS-defining cancers as they reach adulthood, but HIV is unlikely to be the only driver of the what haematologists suspect is an inexplicably high concentration of blood cancers in the province.
Gauteng health workers go months without pay
Some Gauteng health workers have gone almost five months without pay in a delay they estimate could be affecting thousands.
Hospitals may be discharging XDR-TB patients too soon – study
A shortage of beds may be forcing hospitals to discharge patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) before they are cured and a minority may be unwittingly infecting others, according to new research by Cape Town and Stellenbosch universities.
Documents, policies go missing on “gutted” DIY DoH site
A newly redesigned Department of Health website has left health care workers in the dark – at least temporarily – as important guidelines, policies and tenders go missing.
Health care community reacts to Mandela’s death
One of South Africa’s first politicians to openly speak about HIV, Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. Health-e takes a look at how local activists and global health leaders are remembering the father of the nation.