Indiscreet nurses tell patients’ secrets
Patients at Limpopo’s Matavhela Clinic say that not much stays just between patients and nurses.
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Young man’s openness about HIV makes him a village hero
Mutshidzi Nembahe tested HIV-positive at just 14 years old. His courage to live openly with HIV has left those in the community in awe.
Double HIV, TB diagnosis depresses Vhembe man
Erick Mudanalo from Limpopo has been taking tuberculosis (TB) treatment for three years but it was his recent HIV-positive diagnosis that almost caused him to give up hope altogether.
Vhembe school busts students for dagga
Police bust three pupils caught with dagga at Limpopo's Mamphodo Secondary School in Gumela Village.
Patients accuse Limpopo clinic of unfair treatment
Limpopo patients have accused health workers of preferential treatment for family and friends.
“Drugs destroy the real you”
OurHealth was invited to Vhembe’s Folovhodwe village to celebrate a young man's choice to stop abusing alcohol and drugs.
HIV-positive man hangs himself
Vhembe - A man from Tshithuthuni village hanged himself from the roof of the house he was building with his wife after discovering that he was HIV-positive.
Vhembe men learn about circumcision
Nurses from Limpopo’s Guyuni clinic took time off from the clinic to talk to young men in Helula village about medical male circumcision.
Clinic has no water to wash newborns
Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe has had no running water for three weeks.
Community cleans clinic
Community members and patients of Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe spent their 67 minutes on Mandela Day cleaning their clinic, but they don’t only help on one day a year, because they say they value their clinic highly.
Only son lost to botched circumcision
At Ngalavhani village in Vhembe parents are grieving the loss of their only son after complications from the circumcision he got he got during initiation rights in the mountain.
No home after floods
Vhembe – OurHealth recently spent time with a woman in Mfulwi Village, who has no proper housing after it was destroyed by the floods, but has six children to care for.