Girl dies while nurses try to find a bed
Bethlehem '€“ A 5-year-old girl died in the casualty ward at Phekolong Hospital in Bethlehem this week while nurses scurried around trying to find a bed for her in the casualty ward.
Health
Read More » Girl dies while nurses try to find a bed
Long walk to health
Lusikisiki '€“ This week Mtshana Mvlisi spoke to Nonyameko Ntiyo about her long and at times difficult journey back to health.
Qaukeni district clinics and hospitals in distress
Lusikisiki- Twelve clinics and two hospitals that fall under the Qaukeni local district are continuing to experience critical drug shortages and stock outs.
World Stroke Day celebration in Tshwane
OurHealth: Tshwane '€“ The provincial Department of Health in Gauteng recently celebrated World Stroke Day at the KT Motubatse Centre in the township of Soshanguve, in Tshwane, Gauteng.
DR-TB: urgent need to respond to growing global crisis
Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Fighting the scourge of non-communicable diseases
About 500 000 people are expected to benefit from a US$30million global project aimed at addressing non-communicable diseases. The project will be rolled out in four countries, including South Arica, and will have a special focus on diabetes.
African leaders should prioritise immunisation
African leaders were criticised for failing to prioritise immunisation with life-saving vaccines for children under five years of age to prevent deadly infectious diseases.
Tutu TB research centre wins major award
The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) at the University of Stellenbosch will today receive an international award for its groundbreaking research into childhood TB and for its pioneering community-based approaches to TB and HIV care.
Challenges of breastfeeding
Despite knowing the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of a child'€™s life, many new mothers often encounter challenges that prevent them from breast-feeding.
Good news on infant malaria vaccine
Results from a pivotal, large-scale Phase III trial, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate can help protect African infants against malaria. Read the rest of the press release.
Tutu: Organising to battle Drug-Resistant TB
Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes in the Wall Street Journal that South African mines are incubating a deadly form of tuberculosis that is spreading world-wide. Read the full article.
Private sector aid for public health
A unique partnership launched this week between the private health sector and the national Health Department will result in more student doctors being trained, the strengthening of health management education and training and the funding of local research in TB and HIV and AIDS.
Vhembe clinic drug supplies run dry
OurHealth: Vhembe '€“ Two local clinics are experiencing critical drug shortages, with both reporting that they are at times only able to dispense Panado.
Phase out D4T in poor countries
In 2010 the World Health Organisation (WHO) changed the HIV treatment guidelines for poor countries and recommended switching from stavudine (D4T) to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) for all patients on first line treatment.
OPINION by Vuyiseka Dubula (Quackdown)
TAC and chiefs join forces to save Madwaleni
OurHealth: Madwaleni '€“ Local chiefs joined forces with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in a drive to remedy the desperate situation at Madwaleni hospital where a lone doctor is trying to hold the fort.