Miners, families live between death and hope
South Africa’s first class action silicosis suit could win compensation for hundreds of thousands of miners and widows – and prepare the way for a class action suit against the mines for tuberculosis.
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SADC to harmonise TB treatment, cross-border referrals
Southern African countries intend to harmonise tuberculosis (TB) treatment and create cross-border patient databases and referral systems to deal with the TB raging in the region’s mines.
Poor treatment boosts XDR-TB in SA
South Africa’s multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment regimen may be fuelling the rise of MDR-TB as a recent study suggests that many patients are already resistant to at least three of its standard drugs.
Nurses to lead charge against DR-TB
In a country of more than 50 million people, it is hard to be a “first” but Ntombasekaya Mlandu is. She is the first nurse trained to initiate and manage multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients.
Doctor turns patient after contracting XDR-TB
It took one cough and a sputter to change the life of a West Rand doctor after she contracted extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) at Johannesburg’s Lerato Hospital.
Presentation: Drug-resistant TB in South Africa
In this presentation, Dr. Norbert Ndjeka, director of the Department of Health’s DR-TB, TB & HIV division, presents the latest drug-resistant TB figures.
Report: StatsSA Mortality, causes of death in South Africa 2011
StatsSA's latest report on causes of death in South Africa shows slow continued declines in deaths due to communicable diseases like HIV but increases in deaths due to injuries and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
MRC announces first woman president
The Medical Research Council (MRC) will get its first woman president next month when Professor Glenda Gray succeeds Professor Abdool Karim.
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.
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.