World Health Organisation calls for treatment for all
In a landmark move, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended that all people living with HIV be started on treatment as soon as possible following diagnosis.
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Soccer injury ends in death for East Rand teen
The family of a Vosloorus teen believes an injection to treat a soccer injury may have led to their son’s death, and say they may have been able to prevent this if nurses had explained to them the possible treatment side effects.
Financial woes may be fuelling hidden depression
About 20 percent of South Africans live on less than R350 per month and this kind of poverty could be having real impacts not only on people’s physical health but also their mental well being.
[Updated] Documentary premiere: Dying in our homes
Amid a dire shortage of ambulances in the Eastern Cape patients’ lives are at risk as many calls for help go unanswered. A new Health-e News documentary, Dying In Our Homes, reveals the impact on the lives of rural families.
AIDS council: Do your part, guys
South African men must start playing their part in society, according to South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Deputy Chairperson Tshiamo Moela.
Rape within families under-reported
Rape remains under-reported nationally but there may be no rapes more hidden than those committed within families.
Hospital officially renamed for ANC activist
The “new” Natalspruit Hospital in Vosloorus has been renamed for ANC activist Thelle Mogoerane.
Teen’s suicide highlights risk for LGBTI youth
While locals are still reeling about the suicide of 14-year-old Klara Göttert, who took her life at Northgate Mall this week, another mother in the Free State’s rural town of Bethlehem is also mourning the death by suicide of her 18-year-old daughter.
Family fingers East Rand hospital, clinic for poor treatment of dying daughter
The Nyembezi family alleges that the Natalspruit Hospital failed to attend to their dying daughter after what seemed like a common cold turned deadly.
Common throat infection holds danger for kids’ hearts
Rheumatic heart disease week is marked from 4 to 10 August. Read about one boy's battle with this disease.
Millions go hungry, accountability and public participation needed
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.
‘Please help me save my mother,’ son pleads with N. Cape Health authorities
Mom gets toe amputated for no reason when wrongly diagnosed as diabetic, claims son.
Stuck in a limbo, Free State’s community healthworkers struggle to get jobs back
In April 2014, the Free State health department terminated the services of around 3,800 community healthworkers (CHW) – apparently for being too old and under-educated - despite many years’ service supplementing the province’s inadequate care for its sick.
Video: ‘I’m just a girl who is attracted to another girl’
To commemorate Youth Month in June, Health-e News is broadcasting a five-part adolescent health series on Morning Live (SABC 2). This insert – the fifth in the series – follows Mpho, a lesbian youth, as she learns to be more open about her sexuality.
The call unanswered: Emergency services ‘non-existent’ in E.Cape communities
Pensioners living in rural Eastern Cape villages say they have never seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly combination of poor management and budget shortfalls keeps ambulances out of rural communities.