Mild mannered youth turned knife-wielding “zombies” – it might seem like a scene out of a horror film but it is real for some residents living outside the small Free State town of Bethlehem as the picturesque dorpie is the latest to fall under the spell of South Africa’s cheap street drug nyaope.
A stroke prompted 41-year-old Andrew Matekane to test for HIV and like many, dealing with his new diagnosis was not easy for him or his partner.
Lekwa Local Municipality graveyards are allegedly filling up and the area’s high HIV prevalence rate are is to blame, according to Lekwa Executive Mayor Linda Dhlamini.
In this British Journal of Psychiatry supplement, the Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME) outlines district mental health care plans from five low- and middle-income countries.
On the eve of the first global summit on TB and diabetes, experts warn of huge fallout from TB-diabetes interaction
Health-e News broke the story of the Eastern Cape's Village Clinic in 2012. Ntsiki Mpulo re-visists the clinic for the NSP Review and finds upgrades to the clinic remain long overdue.
Medicine stock outs and staff shortages are just some of the reasons Holy Cross Hospital staff say patients may be dying unnecessarily at the beleaguered Eastern Cape hospital, writes Ntsiki Mpulo for the NSP Review.
Compiled by the Rural Health Advocacy Project, the third annual fact sheet presents and update on the status of rural health in South Africa.
The World Health Organisation’s latest annual report on tuberculosis (TB) reveals that the world has met the Millennium Development Goal of reducing trends in new cases of TB but the disease still killed 1.5 million people in 2014.
The world may be losing the war against the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) as the bulk of patients with multidrug-resistant TB go undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest TB report.
Kuruman’s Tshwaragano District Hospital is set to become home to South Africa’s latest human breast milk bank as another bank is reportedly slated to open in Limpopo.
For the first time in 14 years, KZN’s Umthombo Youth Development Foundation may not award scholarships to rural students hoping to study health sciences next year as fees increase by almost double the rate of inflation.
Last week’s student victory has frozen fees, but it cannot save the scholarship programmes aimed at fostering the next generation of rural South African doctors that have already been quietly cut this year.
Carrying a badge and wearing a uniform have not stopped Kuruman police from allegedly threatening sex workers in an attempt to coerce sex workers to provide their services for free, according to Northern Cape Provincial AIDS Council Chairperson Beau Nkaelang.
This African Centre for Migration and Society report details challenges faced by South Africa in recruiting foreign health workers and alleges that the asylum system is being used as a ‘backdoor’ for recruiting professionals.
Be in the know with our free weekly newsletter. We deliver a round-up of our top stories and insightful reads from across the web.