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.
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.
One Mpumalanga clinic is getting a facelift, but paint fumes and dust are making nurses and patients alike think twice about coming back.
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.
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.
Community tip-offs reveal government-provided female condoms for sale on the streets of Ermelo, Mpumalanga.
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.
When a doctor told Bandile Maseko* he was suffering from depression, Maseko refused to believe it. Then things went from bad to worse.
Most students from an Ermelo high school admit to drink regularly, according to an OurHealth survey.
The province’s Msukaligwa Municipality introduces its first 19 Ward AIDS Councils.
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.
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.
The Sexual HIV Prevention Programme (Shipp) is currently supporting community-based organisations by improving their knowledge of condom distribution.