SA’€™s TB cure rate still poor
While government efforts to improve TB services have yet to bear fruit, there is some hope in the field of drug development.
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Bridging the gap between TB patients and treatment
In nearly three years, 18 000 newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients have passed through the TB Care Centre at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, in Soweto. Most of these people would not have known where to receive treatment.
Double trouble Living with AIDS # 251
As HIV infection rates increase, it is projected that so too will the incidence of TB - the most common opportunistic infection in people living with HIV and AIDS. And the dual epidemic presents real challenges for the health system.
Lack of adherence a major problem for TB cure in the Eastern Cape
Lack of adherence, poverty and the rural nature of the Eastern Cape province are the main problems that make curing of TB a major challenge. Health MEC Bevan Goqwana says many people in rural areas quickly develop resistance and succumb to TB because they do not take their medication properly.
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The evolution of a child care centre Living with AIDS # 250
A children'€™s centre formed 12 years ago as a school for farm workers'€™ children in Boksburg, on Gauteng'€™s East Rand, is gradually being forced to rise up to the challenge of more social problems, including HIV and AIDS.
Race & seniority weaken workplace peer education
It is natural that people will only discuss personal matters with people that they feel comfortable with. That is why HIV peer educators in the workplace are important both to educate fellow employees and to help management respond better to HIV and AIDS. But results of a year-long survey show that they often work under challenging circumstances.
Registrar resigns after nepotism report
Allied Health Registrar and half-sister quit after 'continuous allegations of nepotism'
A battle for health in Diepsloot
Over-crowding and long queues are part of daily life for Diepsloot residents seeking primary health care at the Johannesburg informal settlement'€™s O.R. Tambo clinic. And staff shortages are the main fuelling factor.
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.
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.
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.
Diepsloot – Long queues to health
Residents in Diepsloot and Orange Farm struggle to get basic services such as clean water and sanitation.
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.
Natural healers’ council ‘operates like buddies’ club’
But Allied Health Professions Council denies allegations of corruption and nepotism