Human breast milk banks on the rise
Kuruman’s Tshwaragano District Hospital is set to become home to South Africa’s latest human breast milk bank as another bank is reportedly slated to open in Limpopo.
Mpho Lekgetho
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Kuruman police allegedly threaten sex workers for free services
Carrying a badge and wearing a uniform have not stopped Kuruman police from allegedly threatening sex workers in an attempt to coerce sex workers to provide their services for free, according to Northern Cape Provincial AIDS Council Chairperson Beau Nkaelang.
Compensation delay opens door to exploitation
Unscrupulous fly-by-night agencies are preying on asbestosis sufferers in the Northern Cape, promising to help them get monetary compensation, only to make off with their documentation and money.
True Life: ‘I remember thinking what it would be like the day after I committed suicide’
Mpho Lekgheto’s brush with suicide changed her life. On the heels of the recent World Suicide Prevention Day, Lekgheto shares her story of hope and how she found the strength to not only cope but to devote her life to mental health.
Financial woes may be fuelling hidden depression
About 20 percent of South Africans live on less than R350 per month and this kind of poverty could be having real impacts not only on people’s physical health but also their mental well being.
Traditional health practitioners should be regulated, summit says
Traditional health practioners should be regulated say some Northern Cape traditional healers as the Department of Health looks to integrate healers into HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and chronic illnesses programmes.
‘Please help me save my mother,’ son pleads with N. Cape Health authorities
Mom gets toe amputated for no reason when wrongly diagnosed as diabetic, claims son.
Preaching HIV from the pulpit
“There is no place for judgment” Faith-Based Organisations told, as they are called to roll up their sleeves in their fight against HIV
Clinic languishes for years with shortages of space, water
Nursing staff and patients at the Bankhara Community Clinic outside Kuruman, Northern Cape say their clinic continues to struggle with medicine and space shortages almost two years after OurHealth first reported on the clinic’s poor state.
Staff shortages contribute to stock outs
Overburdened medical staff who are not trained in ordering stock could be contributing to the stock out problem that has hit SA
Faith sector needed for UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets
Faith-based organisations had an important role to play in fighting HIV, the SA AIDS Conference in Durban heard.
Childhood game fuels 30-year addiction
On World No Tobacco Day, Emson Bohitile Koiko reflects how a childhood game turned into a 30-year addiction to cigarretes.