The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) at Rhodes Univeristy has released an analysis of national and provincial efforts to improve access to housing, focusing on the Eastern Cape.
Deaths among pregnant women and new mothers may finally be falling in South Africa, but the proportion of these deaths due to an age-old disease may be rising, say experts.
In February 2014, South Africa began rolling out its latest contraception and family planning guidelines.
Recently released documents outline key dates and some of the process so far in regards to the Competition Commission's market inquiry into private health care.
Resistance to common antibiotic medicine has been recorded in every region of the world, according to a report released yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
As part of a recently introduced national campaign, the departments of health and basic education have released the following two-page document for educators.
Thirty drug users from Mabopane, Winterveld and Garankuwa were invited to volunteer for a five-day rehabilitation camp in Heidelberg and the feedback has been encouraging.
Mumu Ngcamane, 31, was diagnosed with high blood pressure when she was just 14. Seventeen years later, she still gets pains in her heart area, but her trust of health care workers has been damaged.
Five determined young men are spreading the word about HIV and tuberculosis (TB) through their music, which may be coming to a cell phone near you.
Following previous OurHealth reports about vaccine stockouts in Limpopo’s Vhembe district, mothers report some stock outs may have been solved.
PRESS RELEASE: Dangerous concentrations of formaldehyde found in seven brands sold in SA.
The Health-e News team’s special investigation into childhood vaccinations has been named as one the top three entries in the African Story Challenge (health category).
One new mother’s good deed may have exposed her seven-month-old baby to tuberculosis (TB).
Released in Johannesburg in early April, this is the first such review of its kind in a high burden African country, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
South Africa has charted steady and significant decreases in mother-to-child HIV transmission rates in recent years but prevention of mother-to-child HIV (PMTCT) campaigns may still be starting HIV-positive mothers on treatment too late.
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