Burst pipe wastes valuable water, cuts off Mofolo residents
Recently, a burst pipe sent hundreds of litres of clean water flowing down storm drains in Mofolo, Soweto as residents went without.
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TAC aims to raise R10 million in November
With only about one-third of the budget it needs for next year, AIDS lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has announced that it aims to raise R10 million next month.
Tapeworms not just a rural problem
As the South African Department of Basic Education prepares to launch a national deworming campaign, a Tshwane family is proof the problem of parasitic worms is not just a rural one.
Women alleges hospital amputated leg by mistake
When Leah Khumalo arrived at Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital, she says she thought she was due for a routine scan to discover the cause of her persistent ankle pain. Instead, the hospital amputated her leg. Now, she wants answers.
Better data unearths more TB cases than previously thought
Better data has revealed more than half a million more tuberculosis (TB) cases than previously thought, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report released yesterday (22 October).
Regional HIV activists laud the TAC
As the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) continues an international fundraising campaign in response to a financial crisis, HIV activists have hailed the AIDS lobby group as an example of activism in southern and east Africa.
Childhood depression going undiagnosed
No one expects children to be depressed, but what we do not expect, we do not catch, says the South African Depression and Group (SADAG).
Multinational pharmaceutical companies push back on new patent policy
As extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) patients beg for a new patent policy to allow them affordable treatment, multinational pharmaceutical companies have objected to some of the draft policy’s key tenets.
EMS strike leaves Tshwane patients stranded
When Nomhle Matshaya tried to call an ambulance for a sick patient this week, she was on hold for one hour and 15 minutes before she gave up. The community health care worker at Hammanskraal’s Refentse Drop-in Centre was only one of many likely affected by an on-going Emergency Medical Services (EMS) strike.
The ordinary heroes of the Treatment Action Campaign
In late September, Health-e News broke news of the financial crisis facing AIDS lobby the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). We look at two TAC activists that embody what South Africa could lose if the TAC closes its doors.
Lumkhile Sizila: “If someone has been attacked at 3am and needs help, he will be there”
TAC’s Khayelitsha office throngs with people who have been ill-treated by the health establishment and have no one else to fight for them.
Fikile Mtsweni: “It talks a lot, this t-shirt, to the community”
Friendships are rarely a matter of life and death but for Khosi Dlamini, her best friend may have saved her life.
Deworming campaign set to hit schools
The Department of Basic Education will spend about R18 million to deworm children in the nation’s schools starting next January.
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.
Between black and white: Growing up with albinism
Like many teenage girls, Nombulelo Mlombo says she never felt pretty. Worse, she faced incessant teasing due to her albinism and her search for acceptance had grave consequences, she says.