Inheriting HIV: A bitter pill to swallow
Ten years after South Africa began providing free HIV treatment, a generation of children born with HIV continues to come of age with the virus. One young Mpumalanga man shares his story.
Senamile Phungula
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Clinic renovations send workers, patients packing
One Mpumalanga clinic is getting a facelift, but paint fumes and dust are making nurses and patients alike think twice about coming back.
Beating hypertension, fighting high food prices
A stoke left her half paralysed and unable to speak properly but ten months later, Elsie Malaza is determined to walk the road to recovery.
New birth control hits mark with Mpumalanga women
South Africa’s first under-the-skin birth control implant is leading some Mpumalanga women to trade traditional birth control shots for the three-year implants.
Female condoms sold illegally in Mpumalanga
Community tip-offs reveal government-provided female condoms for sale on the streets of Ermelo, Mpumalanga.
Treatment Action Campaign boycotts World AIDS Day celebrations
South Africa's largest association of people living with HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), boycotted South Africa’s World AIDS Day commemoration as more than 900 members marched on the site of celebrations in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga.
“Depression was a white people’s illness”
When a doctor told Bandile Maseko* he was suffering from depression, Maseko refused to believe it. Then things went from bad to worse.
Ermelo youth ignore alcohol risks
Most students from an Ermelo high school admit to drink regularly, according to an OurHealth survey.
Mpumalanga launches new Ward AIDS Councilssen
The province’s Msukaligwa Municipality introduces its first 19 Ward AIDS Councils.
TAC demands better health care in Mpumalanga
More than 250 members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) marched to the Nelspruit offices of the Mpumalanga MEC for Health and Social Development to hand over a memorandum listing health issues that needed to be addressed urgently.
Plan to keep Ermelo clinics open later fails
Attempts to improve health care services in Ermelo by extending clinic hours until 7pm on weekdays and opening over weekends, have failed due to staff shortages.
Condom distribution in Mpumalanga must improve
The Sexual HIV Prevention Programme (Shipp) is currently supporting community-based organisations by improving their knowledge of condom distribution.