Klerksdorp cancer survivor speaks out
Klerksdorp’s Dianne Perhouse was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012. Two operations and eight months of chemotherapy later, she is a cancer survivor.
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Statement: Rural health workers call for action to regulate, support community service in understaffed areas
The Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) responds to Constitutional Court case brought against the Minister of Health and the Health Professions Council of South Africa by a junior doctor.
National salt reduction key to NHI
If South Africa is going to successfully implement National Health Insurance (NHI), South Africans are going to have to put down the salt, says Deputy Minister of Health Dr Gwen Ramokgopa.
Shots in the Dark? A look at vaccines in the Eastern Cape
As part of a national Health-e investigation, we travel to the Eastern Cape to explore vaccine stock-outs and storage problems - and watch what one doctor is doing to help rural mums.
Webcast: Age-disparate relationships & HIV incidence amongst rural South African women
Watch and listen to the controversial presentation by the Africa Centre's Guy Harling that questions the relationship between sugar daddies and HIV risk in rural communities.
KZN could prove HIV prevention science to world
While KwaZulu-Natal remains hard hit by HIV, a new study by the humanitarian organisation Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) may mean the province is turning the tide against the virus.
Slideshow: Vaccination in South Africa
Stock-outs and poor vaccine storage stand between life-saving immunizations and South African children. Take a look as Health-e explores the issue from Pretoria to the Eastern Cape.
Missing babies, missing booster shots
While most babies get their first measles vaccination, many miss the second dose as mums struggle to reach far off clinics in the Eastern Cape, say nurses.
HPV campaign to focus on girls – for now
Today, the departments of health and basic education have launched a campaign to vaccinate girls nine years and older against cervical cancer but some wonder if the country is not missing the other 50 percent.
Stock-outs, low awareness stymie immunisations
Stock-outs and a lack of trained health workers are just some of what stands between children and vaccines in Mpumalanga where mothers say they also want to know more about immunisation.
Vaccinations are everyone’s business
After a third of the children at Matilda Mothapo’s crèche in Soshanguve outside of Pretoria developed measles, Mothapo said she learned just how important childhood vaccinations are.
Shots in the dark? Vaccinations in South Africa
A national Health-e investigation of one of the most basic services – childhood vaccinations – found vaccine stock-outs in clinics and measles cases in major cities.
Shots in the dark? Snapshots of Health-e investigation
From new measles cases to vaccine stock-outs, here is a snapshot of what a Health-e News Investigation found from Gauteng to Mpumalanga.
Anti-“Sugar-daddy” campaign not supported by evidence
OPINION: “Sugar daddies destroy lives” say billboard adverts in Kwazulu-Natal in big bold black and red letters. The same message is echoed in radio adverts played across South Africa. Supported by the Minister of Health, it has become a large part of public health messaging to stigmatise age-discordant relationships because of the view that it is driving the country’s high HIV incidence.
Measles: A short history of a deadly disease
An old Arabic saying cautions, “Count your children after the measles has passed.”