Health

Morero wa ho fana ka meriana

Health, Health Systems

Profense ya Limpopo ke e nngwe ya tse hlano tseo mmuso o reng di tla fana ka meriana ya Phamokathe haufinyana. Hona ka mora hore profense ya Gauteng e qale ho fumantsha bakudi meriana ena ka la 1 Mmesa. Tlalehong ena Khopotso Bodibe o etela sepetlele sa Tintswalo, se seng sa dipetlele tse kgolo profenseng ya Limpopo, se leng motseng wa mahaeng Acornhoek. Moo teng o ile a teana le ngaka Paul Pronyk eo a e nang le dilemo tse tsheletseng a sebetsa sepetleng seo ka tlase ho morero wa Rural AIDS and Development Action Research ya yunibesithi ya Wits.

Health-e News
April 29, 2004

Building towards treatmentLiving with AIDS #171

Health, Health Systems

The Limpopo province is one of five provinces that the government says will soon be ready to join the Western Cape and Gauteng in providing AIDS treatment in the public health sector. In this feature Health-e visits Tintswalo Hospital, Limpopo's second largest hospital in rural Acornhoek, and met Dr Paul Pronyk, an American who has been working at the hospital for the last six years as part of Wits University's Rural AIDS and Development Action Research project.

Health-e News
April 29, 2004

Western Cape ‘ Getting it Right

Health, Health Systems, Women's Health

One of the best-resourced provinces in the country, the Western Cape's health services function well.

Health-e News
April 22, 2004

Nursing exodus hits E.Cape

Health, Health Systems

The lure of foreign currency combined with tough working conditions and poor salaries is contributing to the exodus of South African nurses from our health services. The BBC recently reported that South Africa rates second after the Philippines as top supplier of nurses to the UK. Health-e visited the Eastern Cape to find out more about the shortage of nursing staff.

Health-e News
April 19, 2004

For love and money

Health, Women's Health

In the remote villages of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, an innovative pilot project on gender and AIDS awareness offers rural women an opportunity for empowerment.

Health-e News
April 16, 2004

Little old man Elvis Living with AIDS

Health

In this feature we journey to the village of Maupye in Limpopo to meet a young boy we first met three years ago when exploring the reality of children orphaned as a result of AIDS.

Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
April 8, 2004

Eastern Cape – Health Care Crisis

Health, Health Systems, Women's Health

Huge staff shortages and weak primary care are the two most pressing problems in the Eastern Cape health system, but there are signs of improvement in provincial management.

Health-e News
April 8, 2004

Hope rests with young teens

Health

Although one in 10 South African youths aged between 15 and 24 is HIV
positive, 96 percent of 15 year olds are HIV negative.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

Young adults more prone to HIV infection

Health

The largest survey ever conducted amongst South African youth shows that young women are bearing the brunt of the HIV and AIDS pandemic with one in 4 women aged between 20 and 24 testing HIV positive, compared to one in 14 men of the same age. The survey, conducted by the University of the Witwatersrand's Reproductive Health Research Unit and commissioned by loveLife, shows that by the age of 23, one in five young South Africans is HIV positive.

Health-e News
April 6, 2004

SA youth in denial about HIV risk

Health

More than 60 percent of youth who tested HIV positive in the largest survey
ever of South Africans aged between 15 and 24 said that they believed that
they were at low risk of contracting the virus.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

Forced sex fuelling HIV epidemic

Health

The largest representative sample of South African youth ever conducted has
found that almost one third of sexually experienced women reported that they
did not want to have their first sexual encounter and that they had been
coerced into having sex.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

Risky Business ‘ SA Youth and HIV/AIDS

Health

The largest representative survey of South African youth aged between 15 and
24 shows that by the age of 23, one in five South African youth are HIV
positive. The research also confirms findings from the government's 2002
ante-natal clinic survey as well as the HSRC survey of 2002 that HIV
prevalence in this age group appears to be stabilizing.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

North-West Province ‘ Distance and Delivery

Health, Health Systems, Women's Health

With serious staff shortages and a rural population of up to 65 percent, bringing health to the people of the North West Province is no easy job.

Kanya Ndaki
April 5, 2004

Limpopo – Limping behind in health care

Gender Based Violence, Health, Health Systems

Plagued by poverty, drought, inadequate access to basic services and huge inequities, Limpopo faces enormous hurdles in bringing health to its 5,8-million inhabitants.

Health-e News
March 26, 2004

Rape survivors’ pressured to drop charges

Health, Women's Health

South Africa has one of the highest incidences of rape in the world. In many cases, rape survivors do not press charges because of pressure from friends and family. This is the story of 19-year old ZoÃ« who was attacked and raped by her ex-boyfriend last year in December in Uitenhage.

Health-e News
March 24, 2004

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