Rejection remains real concern for people living with HIV
More than three decades into South Africa’s HIV epidemic, HIV knowledge in the country is dropping and falling levels of HIV savvy may have real consequences for those living with HIV.
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Traditional health practitioners should be regulated, summit says
Traditional health practioners should be regulated say some Northern Cape traditional healers as the Department of Health looks to integrate healers into HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and chronic illnesses programmes.
Kidney donor shortage fuels dialysis scarcity
South Africa performs less than 300 kidney transplants annually, according to the South African Renal Society. As more people await life-saving transplants, the demand for dialysis is increasing and the country is not keeping up.
Civil society groups win admission into landmark silicosis case
The South Gauteng High Court has ruled to allow the Treatment Action Campaign and Sonke Gender Justice to give evidence at an upcoming hearing that could pave the way for the country’s first class action suit against the gold industry.
Hundreds picket outside High Court as silicosis matter heard
About 200 Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members picked outside the South Gauteng High Court yesterday in support of TAC's application to become a friend of the court in what may become the country’s first class action suit against the gold industry.
Civil society groups push for entry into silicosis case
Health and gender activists are likely to know by the week’s end whether they will be able to testify in what could be the country’s first class action case against the gold industry.
New HIV diagnoses still prompt thoughts of suicide, shame
With free treatment widely available, HIV is no longer a death sentence, but for many people newly diagnosed with the virus thoughts of death are still not far off.
Apartheid of the abled
Imagine being 22 years old and still stuck in primary school simply because no local high school can accommodate your physical disability. This is the fate of Makhosi Ndabambi. More than 500,000 disabled South African children have no access to any schooling, because schools are only built for the abled.
Douglas clinic gets new nurses following shortage
Douglas patients in the Northern Cape have welcomed two new nurses for the town’s Breipaal Clinic after a previous staff shortage led to long queues and patients being turned away.
Mpumalanga takes health screenings to commuters
When taxi drivers work 16-hour days, health often takes a back seat, which is why the Mpumalanga Department of Health is bring health screenings to taxi drivers and commuters alike.
Booklet: The Road to Recovery – You and Rape
This Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust booklet provides information for rape survivors including how to report a rape, what to do medically after an assault and how to report poor treatment by the police.
Take part SA’s first Health of the Nation Survey
Take a short survey and be part of one of South Africa's largest online surveys into health organised by Health24 and sponsored by FedHealth.
Drug withdrawal without pain?
Despite growing nyaope addiction, only one public health treatment centre in the country offers Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST), which gives a medical helping hand to opiod drug addicts who are trying to kick their habit. Instead, addicts are expected to go ‘cold turkey’ and many relapse from sheer pain
Teen’s suicide highlights risk for LGBTI youth
While locals are still reeling about the suicide of 14-year-old Klara Göttert, who took her life at Northgate Mall this week, another mother in the Free State’s rural town of Bethlehem is also mourning the death by suicide of her 18-year-old daughter.
We want condoms in Gauteng schools, say Soweto groups
Soweto civil society groups say Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi should provide the province’s pupils with prophylaxis.