Knowledge of the Constitution is enabling young lesbian women on the East Rand to fight for their rights and to ‘walk tall’ in the face of persecution. They are eking out spaces for themselves through small daily acts of defiance.
Rheumatic heart disease week is marked from 4 to 10 August. Read about one boy's battle with this disease.
Government recently held winter games in the North West to help bring health services and education to the region’s people living with disabilities and elderly.
A TB patient was pushed from one clinic to another because his closest clinic, Zola Gateway Clinic next to Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto, could not offer TB services.
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is appealing against a recent court decision giving a terminally ill man the right to get a doctor to help him to die.
A 26-year-old North West man recently killed himself after being diagnosed with HIV, leaving his family and two-year-old child in shock. A local counsellor says the death underscores the need for better counselling.
One in four people go hungry in South Africa every day, and the public needs to ensure that their right to access to food enshrined in the Constitution is realised.
As public debate rages about whether there are or are not antiretroviral (ARV) stock outs in the county, our rural doctor and blogger reminds us what three letters and ARV stock outs really mean.
Public interventions that pay people to adopt healthy habits have become increasingly popular over the past decade. Apparently, us humans are so slack that we need to be paid to do simple things that are good for us.
A tiny Limpopo village proves that ubuntu is not dead as they pull together to help a grandmother raise three children.
Two distinctly South African teas have been fingered for their potential to treat two of the country’s biggest cancer killers.
South Africa may join just ten countries in the world that provide antiretrovirals (ARVs) to people living with HIV upon diagnosis as new research spurs activists to demand immediate treatment for all people living with HIV.
Rooibos, honeybush and garlic may protect against cancer, which is set to increase massively in South Africa in the next 15 years
After years of mental distress from trying to deny her sexuality and hide it from her family, Noxolo Nxumalo has accepted that she loves women.
A recent cash-in-transit heist at a grant pay point has led the Department of Social Development to relook pay point security nationwide.
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