Report: Fast-Track – Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030
Released on 18 November ahead of World AIDS Day, the UNAIDS report outlines new targets for the five-year window UNAIDS says is crucial to ending the global threat of HIV.
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Access to cancer treatment – Checkpoint documentary
This Health-e News documentary produced for eNCA's Checkpoint looks at the dire shortage of cancer treatment in South Africa's public sector
Can diet reverse diabetes?
Anecdotes of people claiming to have reduced or gone off diabetes medication altogether after cutting out carbohydrates have seen fad diets cash in on claims of “reversing diabetes”.
Report: National Department of Health Annual Report 2013-14
The 208-page report outlines the Department of Health's progress against stated goals for 2013-14 and includes updates on the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI).
Rural health workers take sex ed into the classroom
Health workers and home-based care givers from Limpopo’s Matavehela village recently spent the day at the local secondary school to take sex education out of the clinic and into the classroom.
Early treatment may be key to stemming pneumonia deaths
As pneumonia remains a leading cause of death in South Africa, experts stress that early treatment is key to heading off this killer infection.
HIV stigma turns deadly for new mum
More than three decades into South Africa’s HIV epidemic, treatment is widely available and HIV is no longer a death sentence – but stigma might be.
Sex after “the snip”
One couple talks to Health-e News about sex after “the snip” of medical male circumcision.
Learning the hard way to love her body
As South Africans’ waistlines continue to grow, one Mpumalanga woman tells OurHealth about how weight problems have followed her through life like a shadow – and so did low self-esteem.
Mabopane holds cancer fundraiser
Mabopane outside Pretoria recently held a fun walk in order to raise funds for the Cancer Association of South Africa’s (CANSA) Gauteng office.
Former Wits Dean implicated in R18m laboratory scandal
The Hawks are investigating a former Wits University Dean and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) head for his alleged role in the laboratory’s procurement of HIV testing kits worth R18-million that never arrived.
Limpopo nurses, community rally around pensioner with diabetes
Nurses at Limpopo’s Thengwe Clinic decide to go above and beyond for one elderly patient after neighbours discover she has stopped taking her chronic medication.
Policy: National Complaints Management Protocol for the Public Health Sector of South Africa
Released in August 2014, the 33-page protocol is to be followed by health authorities, establishments and professional bodies.
Hammanskraal gets new speciality ambulance amid Gauteng “shortage”
Deputy Health Minister Dr Joseph Phaahla recently handed over two obstetric ambulances to the Hammanskraal community outside Pretoria. According to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel, the ambulances designed to save the lives of mothers and babies join a fleet of just 20 for the province.
Family helps father to recover from stroke
A brave and loving family refused to let their father give up on life after he suffered a stroke about a year ago.