South Africans are eating GMO foods every day
Most South Africans, without their knowledge or consent, are unknowingly consuming genetically modified food products every single day.
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Help for young mother after four-month public hospital ordeal
LIMPOPO - After four months battling to recover from childbirth due to ongoing bleeding caused by failed efforts by nurses to stich her properly after giving birth, a young Limpopo mother has finally been helped.
Community Health Workers protest for better working conditions
Community health care workers, unhappy about how they are treated by the Gauteng Department of Health, took to the streets on Tuesday and marched to the department’s offices to raise their concerns.
Staff changes and happy announcements at Health-e News
Health-e has the good fortune to welcome a number of new staff members over the past few months. Gill Gifford joins us as news editor.
Limpopo Health Department steps in to help young mother after horrifying four month ordeal at public hospital
LOUIS TRICHARD - Ongoing bleeding and repeatedly failed efforts to stitch her up have left a young Limpopo woman battling to recover from childbirth, as the Health Department promises to step in and help.
Globally renowned health experts add their names to call for sugar tax in SA
Scholars and academics from leading universities around the world have added their voices to the call for the implementation of a tax on sugary drinks in South Africa.
Black skin is no longer beautiful in Vhembe
Mothers in Vhembe, Limpopo are crying for help because their children – particularly young girls – are using skin bleaching products.
Celebrating breast cancer awareness month
Scores of Ekurhuleni women gathered together recently to join in a 4km fun walk – the first annual Breast Cancer Awareness Walk aimed at creating an awareness of the illness in the local community.
Underfunding ‘nightmare’ hampers the global TB battle
There is a “nightmare of underfunding” for tuberculosis (TB), described by experts as “the greatest infectious disease killer on the planet”.
Millions to be invested in social justice leaders
A R630-million programme aimed at training 600 innovative leaders to address inequality in the health sector has been launched. The US-based Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) this week committed itself to training 30 young and mid-career people every year over the next…
One in four people globally has latent TB
Almost a quarter of the world’s population is infected with ‘latent’ tuberculosis (TB) - a dormant form of the disease, threatening the World Health Organisation’s aim to fully eliminate TB by 2050.
MSF offers access to new TB drug in SA
After feeling ill for months, 16-year-old Sinethemba Kuse received the news that she had multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from her local clinic in Khayelitsha outside of Cape Town in December last year.
Hawks identify Kuruman as human trafficking hot spot
Kuruman – a small town in the Northern Cape – has become a hot spot for human trafficking, with young women and children being targeted and in some cases even murdered.
Rural clinic in KZN struggles for years as authorities turn a deaf ear to their plight
Poor service levels at the Charles Johnson Memorial Gateway Clinic in KwaZulu Natal’s Umzinyathi district has been ongoing for so long that it is almost accepted as the clinic’s culture. A shortage of nurses and a confusing number system for patient queues are the main issues impacting heavily on both staff and clinic visitors.
SA’s healthcare workers hard hit by TB infections
Exposure to infectious patients, high HIV rates and a lack of ventilation in facilities are some of the reasons healthcare workers in South Africa have the one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) infection rates in the world.