Limpopo mental health patients demand equal rights
Patients using local mental health services in Limpopo’s Tshiombo village say they deserve to be treated with respect while accessing treatment.
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Speeches: Free State, KZN, Gauteng, Western Cape health budgets
Selected provincial health budget vote speeches from the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng the Western Cape provinces.
Not simply adapting Buddha for suburbia
In the US, capitalists seem to be ‘looting’ Buddhism, making off with its meditation ‘mindfulness’ techniques and ignoring spiritual teachings such ‘loving kindness’. But how is mindfulness unfolding in South Africa?
Report: Department of Health Strategic Plan 2014/15 – 2018/9
Published by the South African Department of Health, this 53-page document outlines eight broad strategic goals for the department within the next four years including rolling out the National Health Insurance (NHI), re-engineering primary health care and improving financial management.
Coalition calls for better response to mental health, addiction
Health organisations have launched a new push to address what some have called a “mental health pandemic” fuelled by drug abuse in the country.
New generation falls victim to “dop” system
Earlier this year, Sanna*, a 21-year-old farm worker in the Western Cape's Rawsonville area tried to take her own life. New research unveils why.
Nyaope tearing Tshwane families apart while rehab centres are scarce
Community leaders say nyaope is tearing Tshwane communities apart while there are too few rehabilitation centres to help people who use the drug.
Mental illness a silent killer
Sam Segopolo needed help – that everyone knew. When he did not get treatment for what his family and community say was a mental illness – it may have killed him.
Opinion: It’s time we caught up to HIV science
The country’s first openly HIV-positive Mr Gay South Africa finalist Charles Jacobs asks, HIV science has changed but have we? The latest court case against the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) may be a sign that we haven’t.
Tshwane family looks to fulfil father’s dying wish
Originally from the Eastern Cape, Finci Vuza raised his girls as a single father after his wife died. Now, his daughters are hoping to find their elderly father’s family before he dies and fulfil his last wishes.
Abandoned baby recovers in Kuruman Hospital
HIV, post-natal depression and unemployment are just some of the reasons why mums abandon babies. In Kuruman, Northern Cape, one baby narrowly escaped with her life after being left to die.
Mental health patients go without proper beds, clothes
With wards packed to capacity, some Port Elizabeth mental health patients are literally sleeping on top of each other, according to health workers who say bed shortages are just the beginning of problems plaguing mental health services.
Clinics may not be ready for mental health
The Department of Health is set to move mental health care out of specialised hospitals and closer to communities, but clinics may be far from ready for this
“Depression was a white people’s illness”
When a doctor told Bandile Maseko* he was suffering from depression, Maseko refused to believe it. Then things went from bad to worse.
Kites lift mental health to new horizons
Learners from one of the Cape's oldest centres for children with mental disabilities recently spent a day out with kite enthusiasts ahead of Cape Town’s annual International Kite Festival.