BLOG: Mpumalanga living
The first in a series of blog posts by a young South African doctor settling into a rural community service post.
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Statement: Limpopo’s sanitation and infrastructure crisis
On 30 January, public interest organisation Section27 held a Johannesburg press conference about the sanitation and infrastructure crisis in Limpopo schools.
Research: The politics of transition and the economics of HIV
Published by Health GAP, this 39-page report alleges that tens of thousands of HIV patients supported by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) may have been lost to follow up during the aid agency's shift towards more technical assistance in the country.
Clinic tells sick woman to get taxi to hospital
Naome Chavhunga was dizzy and vomiting when her son called an ambulance. A day later, no ambulance had arrived. She managed to get to her local clinic but when nurses urgently referred her to hospital, emergency transport was still out of reach.
Southern Africa leads in cervical cancer cases
Southern Africa continues to shoulder a disproportionate amount of the world's cervical cancer deaths, according to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report that estimates about 19 million people globally will be diagnosed with cancer annually by 2025.
Woman fears banishment following still birth
A heartbroken woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby in early December fears her husband's family will banish her because of her inability to bear children.
Nurses down tools to fill holes
Nurses at Limpopo’s Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe put down their medical equipment and took up spades early in December to address some of the clinic’s maintenance issues.
Millions of rands to go towards new vaccines, medicines
Medical research in South Africa is set to get a R370 million boost for the development of new medicines, vaccines and other technologies to fight against HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
Hospitals may be discharging XDR-TB patients too soon – study
A shortage of beds may be forcing hospitals to discharge patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) before they are cured and a minority may be unwittingly infecting others, according to new research by Cape Town and Stellenbosch universities.
Poor living conditions leave toddler aching
One Hammanskraal family’s poor living conditions could be exacerbating their son’s chronic skin condition as they continue to wait for government housing.
Research: Trends in national, provincial health and HIV budgets in South Africa
Produced by the Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa (CEGAA), this 14-page paper provides an analysis of trends in health, HIV and related areas of public spending.
Klerksdorp boy seeks bone marrow donor
One North West family is desperately seeking a bone marrow donor for their 8-year-old son as he battles a life-threatening blood disorder.
A child with a child
When young Nompumelelo Sithole* from a small farming town in Mpumalanga asked local clinic nurses for contraception, they told her to come back when she was 18 years old. Now 13 years old, Nompumelelo has an eight-month-old baby.
Publication: NSP Review December 2013
Published by the Treatment Action Campaign and Section27, the latest NSP Review looks at retention in care, health leadership and the role of citizen journalism in tracking progress against national targets.
Holiday roadblocks used to raise drug awareness
Holiday roadblocks could be vehicles for change as Tshwane paired cracking down on drivers under the influence with raising awareness about the dangers of drugs.