Diepsloot – Long queues to health
Residents in Diepsloot and Orange Farm struggle to get basic services such as clean water and sanitation.
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Big spender Ekurhuleni fails to deliver
The District Health Barometer paints a fascinating picture of how the country's 53 health districts are faring to keep their residents healthy.
Shacklands pose biggest challenge to eThekwini metro
Thulani Shezi's New Germany Road settlement is one of about 500 shacklands in the eThekwini metro, and it only had a few portable toilets and a distant tap before the ablution block was built two years ago.
Living without hope
Gloria Vena has given up swatting the flies gathering around her face. Her eyes seem empty and distant as she stares out the front door of her house, the back of her neighbour's rickety shack a few steps away from her makeshift front door.
Widening gulf between Khayelitsha and Cape Town
For many Khayelitsha residents, water is a shared tap, sanitation a non-existent luxury and diarrhoea, a constant reality. On the eve of local elections, Health-e investigates how access to basic services impacts on residents' health.
Rath withdraws case against Health-e News
Health-e News Service welcomes the decision by Dr Matthias Rath to withdraw his defamation case against the agency, employees Anso Thom and Khopotso Bodibe and freelancer Siviwe Minyi (case number 11681/05) and to pay our legal costs to date.
Registration delay threatens children’s home Living with AIDS # 249
We pick up on the story of Vhuthamo, a shelter for orphaned and vulnerable children in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg that we visited last week. After three years of existence, the centre faces closure because the authorities have failed to register it as a home.
Natural healers’ council ‘operates like buddies’ club’
But Allied Health Professions Council denies allegations of corruption and nepotism
All’s not well at Drieziek 6, Orange Farm
In Drieziek 6 ' Orange Farm, 60 km south of Johannesburg, not one household has running water, let alone a toilet.
A home away from home Living with AIDS # 248
One of the social impacts of HIV is to rob children of their parents, families and homes. However, some communities and organisations are coming together to take care of affected children. Vhuthamo Home in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, is one haven for such children in the country.
More nurses as colleges re-opened
In a move to address the critical shortage of nurses, several nursing colleges will be re-opened, Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has announced.
Registration of critical ARV drug delayed
Pressure is mounting on the Medicines Control Council (MCC) to fast track the registration of anti-retroviral drug Tenofovir, a replacement for widely-used d4T, which is proving to be highly toxic for many patients.
Mseleku appointed as Registrar
Health Department Director-General Thami Mseleku has been appointed as the Registrar of Medicines at the Medicines Control Council (MCC) as a stop gap measure to avoid any further delays in the registration of medicines.
‘HIV and AIDS is my passion’Living with AIDS # 247
At age 70, many would consider themselves too old to continue working. Let alone as a campaigner to get people tested for HIV. But that's what retired nurse Dorothy Mosaka put away her uniform to do.
‘Mild’ cigarettes deliberately made to fool machine tests
New evidence has emerged of the tobacco industry manipulating smokers switching to mild brands, as countries meet in Geneva to discuss tobacco controls