Communities in the Mpumalanga Highveld Priority Area have long felt the health effects of Eskom’s deadly air pollution that has caused premature deaths and health complications for the surrounding communities, particularly among children, writes Onke Ngcuka. A recent report…
Janice Strydom, a Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) patient, spent six years in and out of emergency rooms, struggling to find a diagnosis for her recurrent throat swelling and closure. Despite consulting multiple doctors, she couldn’t find the information she needed…
The public and private healthcare sectors rely on blood donations from less than one percent of the South African population, says SA National Blood Services (SANBS) spokesperson Khensani Mahlangu. SANBS has made an urgent plea for people to donate…
Plans to build a R20-million clinic near Lebowakgomo in rural Limpopo have stalled due to a disagreement over its location. Mining company Sibanye-Stillwater took on the project in 2019 after the communities of two rural villages, Dithabaneng and Makurung, …
Treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) is becoming more affordable in South Africa as the price of medication to treat it continues to fall. This means men no longer have to limit love-making to special occasions like Valentine’s Day. Increased…
Experts are sounding the alarm over continued low condom usage by South African youth, particularly as it contributes to the high rate of teenage pregnancies and HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women. The South African National AIDS…
The baby formula industry uses increasingly manipulative messaging to target healthcare professionals and mothers. This is one of the findings of the 2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series released last week. The series of three reports highlights falling breastfeeding rates in…
Bongani Regional Hospital in Welkom had to transfer critically ill patients to nearby facilities after cable theft left it without electricity for several hours last week. The provincial health department says the generator wires were also cut, so…
There are currently 32,000 patients on surgery waiting lists in Gauteng’s public hospitals. And the provincial health department says these patients could wait up to five years for certain operations. Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) Gauteng chairperson, Monwabisi Mbasa,…
Relying on cellphone torchlights, unreliable generators and using cooler boxes to keep vaccines and other medicines at the correct temperatures are just some of the stresses healthcare workers face due to the electricity crisis gripping South Africa. And…
The world wants health equity by 2030, but how do we scale up to get there? It starts with a clear understanding of what health and health equity really means, writes BroadReach co-founder Dr Ernest Darkoh. According to the…
The Gauteng Department of Health confirmed a third case of cholera on Wednesday, but authorities say the risk of an outbreak remains low. The husband of one of the first two confirmed patients tested positive. The department says the…
South Africa’s vaccine manufacturing capacity has received a major boost with an R281 million grant from the European Union (EU) and the European Investment Bank (EIB). The funds will support the expansion of Biovac, Southern Africa’s only human vaccine manufacturer…
Rotshidzwa Maluga attended Mabila Primary School deep in rural Vhembe in Limpopo over twenty years ago. He clearly remembers using the pit toilets at the school. Unbelievably, it’s the same toilets, only now more dilapidated, his five-year-old daughter is…
Ritshidze’s second edition of the State of Healthcare for Key Populations report shows little has changed for people at high risk for HIV. Privacy violations, denial of healthcare services, and treatment persist among key populations. Nine thousand people took…
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