Government and pharmacists squared up in the Cape High Court in June, but should consumers be signing petitions in support of their corner pharmacies or should their biggest concern be whether they are paying a fair price for medicine?
Hospitals and clinics in rural towns of the Northern Cape have teams of dedicated health workers who assist community service health workers. Health-e visited the Garies Primary Health Care Clinic and spoke to Sister Pierrette Rossouw, who says that health care in the region has improved immensely in the past 10 years.
Shops are full of Father's Day gifts and cards in preparation for June 20. But the sad reality is that millions of South African children have little or no contact with their fathers, and are very unlikely to spend the day with their dads.
Government claims its long-promised regulations aimed at curbing alcohol abuse will 'soon' be published for public comment. But how should it deal with excessive drinking when alcohol is so much part of South African culture?
While African countries battle with stunting of children caused by lack of food, one of the biggest challenges in child health in the US is obesity.
International Children's Day today (June 1) has led to renewed calls for children to receive lifesaving social grants. But many still receive nothing. Elvis Lerale and Theresa Chabalala are both orphans and live in Limpopo. Health-e first visited them three years ago and returned recently to Maupye and Radoo villages to find that one of them has secured a social grant, while the other still lives in abject poverty.
Mokgahlo wa Beautiful Gate naheng ya Lesotho ke lekala la tshebelletso ya Beautiful Gate Ministries eo dikantoro tsa yona di leng Afrika Borwa. Ho tloha toropong e kgolo ya Maseru ho ka nka metsotso e 20 pele o fihla teng. Ke lehae la masea a lahluweng ke batswadi. Bongata ba bona ke dikgutsana tseo batswadi ba bolauweng ke lefu la Phamkokathe. Kaofela ba 22 ka palo. Re ile ra etela lehae lena la bana ho ya bona hore na ebe ba phela jwang.
Beautiful Gate Lesotho, a non-profit ministry situated in an industrial area some 20 minutes south of the capital Maseru, is home to 22 infants. Some are abandoned and others orphaned, mostly because of AIDS. Health-e visited the centre.
Mpumalanga province's health department, once viewed as corrupt and inept, is experiencing a healthy revival.
One person can make a difference. Ask those who work with or who are treated by the jazz-loving maverick Dr Zola Ntshona, an obstetrician at the Polokwane hospital.
Hospitalized children need the support of their families in order to cope with their sickness. Dikeledi Mtsho (not her real name) is a single parent of a one-year old terminally ill boy. She speaks about the value of spending time with her child in hospital.
Two million out of 9,4 million KwaZulu-Natal residents who live mostly in rural areas and informal settlements still don't have adequate care in South Africa's most populous province.
Each year the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town treats about 170 000 children aged from 0 to 12 years. Many come from Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya and elsewhere in Africa and many of them are suffering from terminal illnesses. But how do health workers cope with the trauma of losing the young patients who have become part of their lives?
Families are reducing their food intake as a first strategy to cope with the increased financial burden of caring for a sick or dying HIV positive family member.
Despite its small population of around 2.2 million, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho is concerned that its HIV transmission rate is increasing. The official prevalence rate is 31%. Only a handful, about 5% of the infected, pay for treatment provided by the private health sector. But a grant donation has enabled Lesotho to begin ushering in a small-scale treatment initiative.
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