Days after Gauteng community health workers made good on promises to take their fight for payment to the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in a protest, the Gauteng Department of Health announced that almost 8 000 workers will be paid by month’s end.
South Africa’s first class action silicosis suit could win compensation for hundreds of thousands of miners and widows – and prepare the way for a class action suit against the mines for tuberculosis.
Ahead of South Africa's May elections, many of the country's major political parties have little to say about health issues in the country as only eight parties respond to questions from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
The Medical Research Council (MRC) will get its first woman president next month when Professor Glenda Gray succeeds Professor Abdool Karim.
As part of a national Health-e investigation, we travel to the Eastern Cape to explore vaccine stock-outs and storage problems - and watch what one doctor is doing to help rural mums.
Stock-outs and poor vaccine storage stand between life-saving immunizations and South African children. Take a look as Health-e explores the issue from Pretoria to the Eastern Cape.
While most babies get their first measles vaccination, many miss the second dose as mums struggle to reach far off clinics in the Eastern Cape, say nurses.
Today, the departments of health and basic education have launched a campaign to vaccinate girls nine years and older against cervical cancer but some wonder if the country is not missing the other 50 percent.
Despite flattering statistics presented by government about community access to water and sanitation, many communities experience “a starkly different reality.”
A national Health-e investigation of one of the most basic services – childhood vaccinations – found vaccine stock-outs in clinics and measles cases in major cities.
Despite promises of payment by the Gauteng Department of Health, some community health workers report that they have not been paid for their work as home-based carers, HIV testing counsellors and peer educators. For some, the delay means they have gone almost five months without pay.
Water shortages in Tshwane’s Stinkwater and Eersterust areas are forcing people to buy unpurified borehole water.
The first in a series of blog posts by a young South African doctor settling into a rural community service post.
A shortage of beds may be forcing hospitals to discharge patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) before they are cured and a minority may be unwittingly infecting others, according to new research by Cape Town and Stellenbosch universities.
One North West family is desperately seeking a bone marrow donor for their 8-year-old son as he battles a life-threatening blood disorder.
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