HIV positive teenagers in the Northern Cape have started defaulting on their treatment because of the difficulties they encounter as they regularly have to miss school in order to fetch their medication.
NORTHERN CAPE - Traditional leaders in Gantatelang Village are concerned by ongoing littering that they believe is posing a health threat to the community.
The community of Khutsong in the Merafong municipality is living in fear as sinkholes open up all over the area, damaging the infrastructure.
Rand water has recently lowered the pressure on the water supply to communities under the Emfuleni and Merafong municipalities in Gauteng.
Thousands of inmates at 12 Correctional Services facilities are now receiving their medication on time thanks to the opening of a new pharmacy set up at the Umthatha Correctional Centre in the Eastern Cape.
Medics at a Johannesburg hospital say they are concerned that private wards are attributing to a shortage of beds for patients who cannot afford the cost of private health care.
A young man who grew up poor in rural Limpopo has, by age 28, trained as a nurse, become a motivational speaker, joined a care group that has adopted 120 orphans and spearheaded mass donations of shoes to six rural schools.
As the country marks the end of Child Protection week, residents of Tsakane in Ekurhuleni took to the streets in protest as a 61 year-old man made his second appearance in court, charged with raping an 8-year-old girl.
The Eastern Cape Department of Health is in the process of training more than 350 nurses at the Lilitha College of Nursing.
People responding to adverts for jobs at some of Gauteng’s hospitals in exchange for a deposit fee will be swindled as the offers are bogus and have not been made by the Gauteng Department of Health.
The new R17-million 4th Avenue Clinic facility under construction in Alexandra is unlikely to be finished on time due to numerous delays as well as construction employees repeatedly arriving drunk for work.
LIMPOPO – While the number of patients reporting to clinics and hospitals with malaria in Mopani is dropping, the provincial health department remains concerned as the battle to end the current outbreak continues.
A Joburg mother, who is learning to cope after one of her three children was diagnosed with autism, is campaigning to break the stigma associated with the disorder.
Sbongeleni Myeni (25) from Jozini, north of KwaZulu Natal, is thrilled by the prospect of being able to proudly wear a wrist watch after a painful ganglion cyst that has bothered him for nine years has finally been removed.
KWA-ZULU NATAL - Traditional healers in KwaZulu Natal have been trained by the provincial Department of Health (DoH) to counsel, examine and test their patients impacted by HIV/Aids and TB.
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