SMS reminders help HIV patients take meds
VHEMBE. - The clinic management and staff at Matavhela clinic came up with a strategy to help their HIV/AIDS patients take their antiretrovirals (ARVs) regularly.
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Garbage poses health threat to community
TSHWANE. - The community of Soshanguve Block L is fed up with the foul smell coming off the heaps of uncollected garbage piling up in the area.
Clinics without family planning injections
LUSIKISIKI. - All twelve clinics in the Qaukeni sub-district here have had no family planning injections since December last year.
No immunisation at Limpopo clinics, hospitals
THOHOYANDOU. - The Department of Health and Social Development in Limpopo is urging everyone who was turned away from clinics and hospitals in the region because of medicine stock outs to go back and get assistance.
Heavy rain affected health services
LUSIKISIKI. ' Parts of the St Elizabeth hospital here were flooded during the heavy rain the Eastern Cape experienced recently.
Community hopes SANAC meeting will strengthen commitment to HIV
GERT SIBANDE. ' In April all eyes were on Mpumalanga as the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) held its first plenary meeting for the year here.
Parents educated about raising children
SOSHANGUVE. ' More than 300 Soshanguve residents recently took part in a campaign, called Raising Roots, that gives parents, grandparents and caregivers all the advice and knowledge they need to raise healthier, happier children.
Patients fear for their health after ARV shortage
BLOEMFONTEIN ' While the rest of the country is celebrating the roll-out of a new HIV treatment, the Gabriel Dichabe Clinic has run out of antiretroviral tablets.
Doctors charged with rape dies
VHEMBE. - A 43-year-old medical doctor who was arrested for raping a patient in his surgery has died.
Activists demand better service
A group of about 200 activists from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) recently picketed at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital to demand better service.
Patients and health workers excited about new HIV treatment
TSHWANE. - Phedisong 4 Clinic in Ga-rankuwa was abuzz with when the Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, recently introduce the roll-out of the new one-a-day antiretroviral treatment for HIV patients.
Dept of Health withholding National AIDS Vaccine Plan
Civil rights groups and communities have expressed their concerned about the failure of the Department of Health to release the National Aids Vaccine Strategic Plan (NAVSP) for 2013-2017.
Health services don’t increase along with population
GERT SIBANDE. ' The population of the small Mpumalanga town of Ermelo has grown rapidly over the last few years due to booming industries in the region.
‘Patients default because of nurses’
LUSIKISIKI. - Makazi Damane is a 42-year-old Lusikisiki man living at the low-income housing scheme in at Joe Slovo. He was diagnosed with HIV and started antiretroviral treatment in 2006, but from 2010 have been going on and off of treatment.
Villagers taught the importance of treatment adherence
LUSIKISIKI – Communities living in the Dubana and Mevana villages here were recently educated on the importance of adhering to treatment regimens.