Mofolo Hospice ‘ juggling life and death
'Miracles' have been taking place at Mofolo Hospice with the arrival of anti-retrovirals as patients admitted on the brink of death leave the in-patient unit on their own two feet.
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‘Angels of death’
Hospice workers become the voice of the vulnerable, supporting those at the end of their lives.
A life saved
Hospitals send patients that they can no longer do anything for to hospices. Often, such patients are about to die. Nonhlanhla Nyembe was one such patient, but amazingly, she's still alive.
Hospice gives hope to AIDS patients
The spread of HIV /AIDS, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal province, has seen an increase of patients who receive home-based care from different hospices in the province.
Extending hospice care into homes
Hospice care does not just end with tending to the health needs of the sick. While following a home-based care-giver from the Mofolo Hospice in Soweto, it's evident that care-givers often deal with social problems of their patients.
Mofolo Hospice ‘ juggling life and death
This week is Hospice Week in South Africa. To mark this, we look at the work of a few hospices. When it first set up in Mofolo, Soweto, in a corrugated iron structure nine years ago, Mofolo Hospice had only two nursing sisters and less than 40 patients. Today, the centre has a staffing complement of 20 and over 500 patients in its books.
Zuzimpilo faces challenge to meet target
The much talked about Johannesburg-based Zuzimpilo Medical Centre is experiencing difficulties in meeting its target of enrolling 1000 people on ARV treatment before the end of the year.
Hospital not coping with MDR TB increase
Brooklyn Chest Clinic is unable to cope with the increase in patients with multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extreme drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, and Western Cape health workers are calling for patients to be treated in the community.
Climate change could spread malaria
Leading environmental scientists say unfavorable weather conditions caused by global climate change could fuel the spread of malaria in areas where it has never been experienced before.
Health and Democracy Living with AIDS 302
A publication looking at health and human rights would be incomplete without a focus on HIV/AIDS. The recently-published Health & Democracy is one such book.
State urged to settle in court case
The Treatment Action Campaign has publicly called on the deputy president and the acting health minister to settle the court case involving the civil society Aids group, doctors, government and vitamin salesman Matthias Rath.
Many obstacles to healthcare for rape survivors
Rape survivors are not getting the healthcare they need.
Call to save nurses from contracting TB
The Democratic Nurses' Union of South Africa (DENOSA) is calling upon the Health Department, to strengthen safety measures to protect nurses from the highly infectious Multi-Drug and Extremely-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
Cost of vaccine spells pneumonia for kids Living with AIDS # 301
The World Health Organisation has called on governments to include a childhood vaccine, known as Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, which acts against pneumonia and meningitis in their national immunisation programmes. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children globally, and more so, in countries with a high burden of HIV.
Locking up XDR TB patients is ‘extreme’
The detention of patients with extremely drug resistant (XDR) TB should only be considered as a last resort when all other voluntary measures have failed, according to the South African health department. By Chris Makhaye & Kerry Cullinan.