With wards packed to capacity, some Port Elizabeth mental health patients are literally sleeping on top of each other, according to health workers who say bed shortages are just the beginning of problems plaguing mental health services.
After the bouts of radiation and chemotherapy are over, many cancer survivors are left to face the illness' often unspoken sexual side effects in the bedroom.
The Department of Health is set to move mental health care out of specialised hospitals and closer to communities, but clinics may be far from ready for this
Child support grant may help protect young women from contracting HIV by keeping sugar daddies away, according to a new study released today.
For years, HIV and tuberculosis have dominated South Africa’s health care programmes but the country is looking to pay more attention to cancer and other non-communicable diseases (NDCs) with the introduction of a new national plan.
Buisness plans from South Africa's 11 National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts outlining 2012/13 activities funded by the government-issued NHI conditional grant.
Police bust three pupils caught with dagga at Limpopo's Mamphodo Secondary School in Gumela Village.
On Tuesday, the 19th November, as the world commemorated International Men's Day, Brothers For Life, a national campaign representing the combined efforts of over 100 organisations, released the first Men's Health Barometer.
The civil society Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition provides an analysis of proposed plans to fix the province's health system.
Women in Jourberton, North West are not warming to wearing what they say are noisy female condoms.
As hundreds of cancer patients wait months for treatment in Gauteng hospitals, at least one patient group has threatened to take the province to court.
While regulation and taxation have halved South African smoking rates in the past 20 years, rates in the rest of Africa are rising steadily.
Expired medicines worth around R30 million were recently discovered in an unauthorised medical depot in Libode near Mthatha.
Published by Cape Town's Alternative Information and Development Centre, this 84-page booklet describes processes and trends in public expenditure for service delivery, including health.
Delivered at a 2013 meeting of the Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum, this presentation provides an overview of Health-e's OurHealth citizen journalism programme.
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