Rotary Clubs of Klerksdorp and Orkney, together with the Department of Health, took part in a nationwide campaign to take free services to people of Jouberton, near Klerksdorp in the North West over the weekend.
Depaliseng sub-district in Gert Sibande has five healthcare facilities: three community health clinics (CHC) and two clinics. The two nearest hospitals are in Standerton, 80km away and Heidelberg Hospital, in Gauteng, which is 30km away. The sub-district has a population…
Dilopye village is situated in a remote area in the north-western region of the city of Tshwane, Hammanskraal, which is one of the National Health Insurance pilot sites with an estimated population of 35 000 people. Many of these are unemployed and depend on social assistance grants.
Winter is the time initiation schools run and in the Eastern Cape it is a time of worry for many because of the health risks involved.
Eight people have been initiated into the new Fixed Dose Combination of ARV treatment at the Magwa Clinic. The new treatment uses one pill, which combines emtricitabine, TDF and efavirenz.
A well-known health supporter has been honoured by the department of health and social development in Vhembe for her outstanding community commitment in health-related matters.
The Department of Health and Social Development in Limpopo is collaborating with the Zimbabwean government to curb cholera outbreaks in both countries.
SOSHANGUVE - From outside, Leratong Old Age and Orphanage Centre in Block XX seems like an ordinary house, but inside thirteen pensioners are cared for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the aide of six caregivers.
Older HIV-positive people use their influence to manipulate young girls into having sex.
Health-e News Service conducted an informal survey of the state of 17 schools' toilets that fall within four of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts. Read how each district performed.
Millions of people do not have access to proper sanitation and in South African schools the situation is especially dire. Health-e News Service conducted an informal survey of the state of 17 schools' toilets that fall within four of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts. At all 17 schools the toilets were in a shocking condition. By OurHealth Reporters.
GERT SIBANDE. - The Gert Sibande district municipality is working hard at implementing the National Strategic Plan (NSP) for 2012-2015 that promotes zero new infections, zero HIV/AIDS related deaths and zero stigma.
BETHLEHEM. ' A 27-year-old Bethlehem woman, Nthatisi Tladi, told OurHealth about the service she has experienced from the Mphohadi Clinic in the Free State over the last 10 years.
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.
The part worst affected was the female medical ward, particularly the ward for patients with tuberculosis (TB).
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