Drunk employees delay clinic construction
The new R17-million 4th Avenue Clinic facility under construction in Alexandra is unlikely to be finished on time due to numerous delays as well as construction employees repeatedly arriving drunk for work.
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Malaria count up to 2000 since April
LIMPOPO – While the number of patients reporting to clinics and hospitals with malaria in Mopani is dropping, the provincial health department remains concerned as the battle to end the current outbreak continues.
Killed for being gay
While recent reports on the murder of part-time student Karabo Mokoena - whose body was discovered after she was burnt to death with acid with a tyre around her neck - have had South Africans reeling in horror, another equally disturbing murder has passed quietly by.
KZN traditional healers trained to test and counsel HIV and TB patients
KWA-ZULU NATAL - Traditional healers in KwaZulu Natal have been trained by the provincial Department of Health (DoH) to counsel, examine and test their patients impacted by HIV/Aids and TB.
Emergency vaccination to curb measles outbreak in Gauteng
The City of Johannesburg is launching an emergency measles vaccination campaign following after 11 cases of the the illness have been reported in Gauteng.
No time for emergencies
SA’s grandmothers are breadwinners in their old age, and their inability to access decent healthcare quickly impacts on their children, grandchildren and their entire communities.
Limpopo woman gives birth on the street
A pregnant woman, who was sent home after arriving at her local clinic with severe abdominal pains, gave birth to a healthy baby girl in the street a short while later.
Community accuse mom of neglecting disabled son
Months after authorities were alerted to the plight of a severely neglected 25 year-old handicapped man, nothing has been done to help him.
Transport costs lead to unnecessary death
KWA-ZULU NATAL – The unaffordable cost of traveling to her local clinic almost 20km away led to a 59-year-old woman defaulting on her medication and ultimately dying.
Blessers: A short cut to a short life
A production by the National Children’s Theatre brings to light the shocking normalisation and risks of the pervasive blesser-blessee phenomenon in South Africa writes Kim Harrisberg.
Norah takes sex education to schools
Diagnosed HIV positive at birth, pregnant at 16, raped at 19 – a young woman raised in Soweto is using her own life experiences to teach young people about HIV and unwanted pregnancy.
Township TB drive highlights disease dangers
SOWETO – A door-to-door campaign conducted at Jabulani Hostel in honour of TB awareness month revealed that while many residents are infected, a high number of them have been defaulting on their treatment.
Cancer is not a death sentence
After suffering with painful colon cancer for nearly five years, 59 year old Maki Makunyane-Moela of Alexandra township has been diagnosed free of the disease and is now on a mission to spread awareness that a cancer diagnosis is not always a death sentence.
Sugar tax: too weak to be healthy?
Government has so weakened its proposed tax on sugary drinks that it might not be enough to encourage consumers to switch to healthier drinks.
Drug-resistant TB: The edge of death
Health care workers in South Africa are more likely to get TB than ordinary citizens. As we mark TB awareness month, dietitian INGRID OXLEY recounts how drug-resistant TB nearly cost her life.