Endinako Ngxangashe (3) sits at her grandmother's feet, intensely following her every move. She innocently asks her grandmother No-andile Ngxangashe's (55) why she no longer goes to school. Ngxangashe's candidly looks at her granddaughter and smiles.
Young children from an impoverished Cape Town community are spending their days on the street as bureaucracy hampers their access to safety and early education.
With the launch of the AID Effectiveness Framework for Health last week, the Health Department is confident that it has taken a step closer to achieving its goal of giving South Africans better health care. This follows a renewed financial boost to the country's health system.
Those peddling Whoonga, the deadly drug sweeping through KwaZulu-Natal townships, should face murder charges as they are deliberately poisoning people.
An article published in SA Crime Quarterly reports on the findings of research conducted to try and establish from men why they rape.
Teenagers say they know all they need to know about HIV/AIDS, yet they often fail to make the right decisions to protect themselves.
Teenagers say they know all they need to know about HIV/AIDS, yet they often fail to make the right decisions to protect themselves.
Teenagers say they know all they need to know about HIV/AIDS, yet they often fail to make the right decisions to protect themselves.
There will be no flu vaccine shortages this year, according to the national health department.
An investigation into the deaths of six babies at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic hospital last year warned that there was a very real danger of this tragedy repeating itself.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have committed to working together to reduce child stunting in Eastern and Southern Africa in an effort to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Three men, accused of stealing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to produce 'whoonga' ' a highly addictive drug - have been arrested in separate incidents.
Three men, accused of stealing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to produce 'whoonga' ' a highly addictive drug - have been arrested in separate incidents.
As local and international studies show that new HIV infections have remained static over the last 10 years, dealing with the epidemic now requires the world to give HIV prevention efforts the same attention as treatment to bring down new infections.
Health-e's TV unit tracks two HIV positive women through their pregnancies, births and subsequent heart-wrenching wait to see whether their babies are born with HIV.
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