Xolise Sam watched his sister, Tumeka, writhe in pain for almost a week before she died in Frere Hospital’s Ward Four. She lay screaming in between the seizures that had begun to jolt her frail frame as Xolisile dialled “112” for emergency services again and again.
South African musician Johnny Clegg has donated R100,000 to AIDS lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign to mark World Tuberculosis (TB) Day.
After being diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), Olebogeng Selumi was recently discharged from the Northern Cape’s Kimberley Hospital. Back at home, it is a daily struggle to stay on treatment – and keep his family safe.
South Africa aims to test up to 6.2 million people for tuberculosis (TB) in the next three years, according to an announcement made yesterday by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
In 2002, only 25,000 HIV-positive South Africans had access to exorbitantly life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs) costing thousands of rands. Today, the story is much different and a new book chronicles one of its most important chapters.
More than 40,000 prisoners have been screened for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) this year as government attempts to tackle TB in correctional facilities.
Tugela Ferry was the epicentre of a high profile and deadly outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) in 2006. Now, the rural community is pioneering new ways to treat drug-resistant TB, but patients still face a long road to treatment.
Decentralised treatment of people with drug-resistant TB reaches more patients and is cheaper - yet government is dragging its feet to implement this approach, which it adopted as policy in 2011
Ntokozo Mathonsi, 18, says she should not have to wear a skirt to get an education. About two weeks after Ntokozo and seven other girls were suspended from an East Rand high school, the girls are back to school after the Department of Education intervened.
Sheila Gumbi watched her son change before her eyes as her once sweet baby boy became increasingly aggressive. She now knows why but being able to name her son’s addiction has not given her the power to stop it.
City of Cape Town warnings that it will seek to clarify legislation around e-cigarettes and hookah pipes is a responsible move, writes Dr Dominique Stott, executive for medical standards at the Professional Provident Society financial services company.
After weeks of lobbying by civil society organisations, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has decided to open its draft food security plan for public comment.
The public comment period on the 164-page draft policy closes 24 April 2015.
Activists have alleged that only five civil society organisations were invited to today’s public consultation on government’s new food policy.
South Africa’s Constitution is one of just 20 in the world that recognises the right to food, but realising that right will mean re-thinking agriculture and re-connecting with the source of our food, writes Busiso Moyo with the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute think tank.
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