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.
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School-based HPV vaccination campaign wraps up
As a school campaign to inoculate girls against one of the leading causes of cervical cancer wraps in the Northern Cape’s Siyancuma Local Municipality, one nurse says parents need to know more about the human papillomavirus (HPV).
The next wave of prevention: Ring-fencing HIV
A range of new products, including vaginal rings and antiretroviral (ARV) injections, may soon be on offer to prevent HIV.
New barometer reveals the haves and the have nots
Life is hardest for people living in the Eastern Cape’s Alfred Nzo district, where fewer than six out of 100 households have inside taps.
Experts mull ways to fund, manage National Health Insurance
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is likely to revolutionise health funding. This could include new, business-like approaches to health and new roles for medical aids in the post-NHI world, according to latest South African Health Review released last night.
You’re never too young for a stroke
More people in their 20s and 30s are suffering strokes, which can affect even children and babies, warns the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF).
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.
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.