Woolworths employees put a smile on kids’ faces
Employees at Musina’s Woolworths are going the extra mile to put a smile on children’s faces as part of a fundraising campaign for Operation Smile South Africa.
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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.
Report: Global Fund targets in South African prisons
Released by the TB non-profit the Aurum Institute, this document outlines organisations receiving international funding to address TB in prisons as well as goals and timelines.
Family suffers double blow of cervical cancer
Months after OurHealth profiled 4-year-old Masego Seemise’s battle with eczema, the Seemise family of Hammanskraal has been dealt another blow after grandmother Decia’s diagnosis of cervical cancer.
Motsoaledi: Maternal, child focus remains post-MDGs
South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says three issues should top the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda.
Boost for XDR-TB patients as cheaper pills allowed
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has granted humanitarian group Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) access to a cheaper drug to treat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
Women are ‘collateral damage’ in South Sudan war
Health-e News Managing Editor Kerry Cullinan writes on HIV, women and media in war-torn South Sudan.
Free State health crisis continues unabated
Unpaid health workers staged a night vigil and sit in at the offices of the Free State premier and MEC for health as the province’s health system continues to spiral – and the Free State Department of Health remains largely silent, say activists.
Gogo takes to the pitch to beat high blood pressure
As the globe’s best footballers take to the pitch for the World Cup, 60-year-old grandmother of ten Lizzy Jockia has taken to the field to save her life.
Documents: TB in South African Prisons
The following documents outline the use of the rapid GeneXpert TB test in prisons, HIV and TB interventions and describe the recently created task team.
Dobsonville baby’s death reveals faults in system
The Gauteng Department of Health has promised to fix electrical wiring at Dobsonville’s Itireleng Community Health Centre by the end of this week following a public outcry over a baby’s death, but the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) says there are larger issues.
Ten reasons to go rural
Nationwide, health care students from nurses to psychologists are gearing up to submit their preferences for their community service placements. Our rural doctor-turned-blogger gives them 10 reasons to “go rural.”
Over half a million initiates maimed under the knife
More than half a million boys have been hospitalised due to botched traditional circumcisions since 2008, according to a new report. Released yesterday, the report says that the dangerous commercialisation of tradition is fuelling the rise of illegal initiation schools in which drug abuse and violence may be rampant.
HIV patients revel in the one pill a day age
Some people living with HIV used to take as many as six antiretroviral (ARV) pills daily. More than a year after South Africa’s introduction of a three-in-one daily ARV, patients are still raving about the convenient little pill.
Drinking – and dying – in South Africa
South Africans consume about ten litres of alcohol per year, drinking nearly a third more than the world average. And when we drink, we drink a lot, say experts.