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.
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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.
Protesters demand BRICS triple TB research funding
More than 300 former tuberculosis (TB) patients, activists and health experts have demanded that countries like China, Brazil and India increase TB research funding as the bacteria continues to hundreds of thousands of their citizens in the ground each year.
People with disabilities picket Shoprite
More than 100 people living with disabilities recently protested the lack of wheelchair access at Shoprite’s Thohoyandou branch, bringing shopping to a standstill for hours. The group is expected to resume protests today.
World debuts new combination TB drug for children
More than 30,000 children develop tuberculosis (TB) each year in South Africa. For these children, cure comes in the form of six months of daily, bitter pills made for adults more than twice their size but new, better treatment may be on the way, according to research non-profit the TB Alliance.
Kasi artist gets real with youth on HIV
South Africa may see an estimated 469,000 new HIV infections annually, and young women between the ages of 15 and 24 remain hardest hit by new infections, according to the country’s latest HIV survey. Now a young Khayelitsha artist is using the stage to take HIV prevention to the streets.
AIDS progress is a good story
COMMENT: Amid a growing list of government blunders, the one good story to tell is the progress that the Zuma administration has made against AIDS - but the war has not yet been won.