New drug rehab centre slated for East Rand
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is set to unveil a new, community-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Daveyton.
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New agreement could help end ARV stock outs
After months of erratic supply of its antiretroviral (ARV) Aluvia in South Africa, international pharmaceutical company AbbVie will now allow generic manufacturers to produce the drug to help safeguard supplies, according to an announcement made today.
Are we obsessed with tighter vaginas?
A Chinese dried fruit delicacy is selling like hot cakes in the Free State as women believe the fruit will give them tighter, more youthful vaginas. Experts say the obsession with the mythical tight vagina says as about our understanding of anatomy as it does about our times.
Study may reveal extent of statutory rape
Mzanzi Magic’s recent “Our Perfect Wedding” saga thrust statutory rape into the national headlines but just how many cases of statutory rape are reported each year in South Africa is anyone’s guess.
App: Primary Health Care Clinical Guide
Produced by South Africa’s The Open Medicine Project, the Department of Health app gives health care workers’ easy access to the country’s Primary Health Care Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List.
Health-e News debuts new weekly TV show
Catch the latest in health news from around the country in Health-e News’ new, weekly programme “Health Matters” on the Department of Health’s new channel the GoodLife Network on DSTV Channel 199.
More than 1000 learners, teachers share two toilets
More than 1000 learners and teachers at Nelspruit’s Gedlembane Secondary School are forced to share just two toilets as a water shortage means 13 new toilets have stood idle for about a year. The school is just one of hundreds in the country without proper water and santanitation.
White paper: National Health Insurance for South Africa
The 97-page paper outlines the country’s path to universal health coverage over 14 years and proposes dramatic changes in the role of private medical aids and the National Health Laboratory Services among others.
Limpopo youth urged to pick sports over sex
Sports over sex – that’s the message that Limpopo social worker Peggy Mulaudzi is preaching to the province’s youth.
Report: The Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020
The Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020 is a costed plan to implement the first five years of the world’s “End TB Strategy,” which is a 20-year-plan to eradicate death, disease and suffering due to tuberculosis (TB) by 2035.
Guide: Close the gap – TB and human rights
Produced by the AIDS Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), this activists’ guide provides a framework for activists to address five key issues within the intersection of tuberculosis (TB) and human rights.
Women on front lines as Free State health crumbles
The Free State Health Department has lost almost a quarter of its doctors in the last year. At Welkom’s Bongani Regional Hospital, the strain is beginning to show with deadly consequences for Free State women.
Stigma not a distant memory for those living with HIV
When Ndlela Howard Dhlamini disclosed his HIV-positive status more than a decade ago, ignorance about HIV led his local tavern to refuse to reuse the glass he drank from. This kind of HIV stigma may be a memory for Dhlamini but not for everyone living with the virus.
Protestors slam Sanofi for allegedly raising costs of medicines in SA
Activists stormed representatives of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi at the World Lung Health Conference. Organisations including the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have accused the company of profiteering and charging South Africans up to almost ten times the global price for a much needed medicine to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).
Fluffy could give you TB
From your pet cat to the lions of the Kruger Park, animal carriers of tuberculosis (TB) are becoming an increasing concern as research continues to reveal TB in the most surprising of places.