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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
One Hammanskraal family’s poor living conditions could be exacerbating their son’s chronic skin condition as they continue to wait for government housing.
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.
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.
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.
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 could be vehicles for change as Tshwane paired cracking down on drivers under the influence with raising awareness about the dangers of drugs.
Security officials have seized the computers of Free State AIDS Council members in an apparent bid to catch whistle blowers who exposed recent medicine shortages in provincial clinics, according to Section27 Director Mark Heywood.
In Research & Reality, we call on funders and researchers to capitalize on lessons learned from a range of recent HIV prevention trials via better problem solving, more critical thinking and coordinated action.
UNAIDS talk about the end of AIDS is “misleading and potentially irresponsible,” said Section27 director Mark Heywood.
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