Post election challenges facing Berea
Residents of Berea – a high density suburb in Joburg’s inner city – say their area has been neglected, they are not receiving services and their health is at risk because of filth.
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One woman’s drive to encourage home grown vegetables to save money and stay healthy
As South Africa marks Women’s Day today, one woman in Vhembe, Limpopo is making a positive difference to community by promoting the benefits of home vegetable gardens.
Help at last for Soweto teen with elephantiasis
A teenager from Soweto who has been suffering from elephantiasis for six years, and who only recently discovered that he was born HIV positive, will soon receive the treatment he desperately needs.
Angry parents shut down dilapidated Limpopo school
Conditions at the dilapidated Hlalelani Primary School in Limpopo have continued to deteriorate, despite promises by the provincial Education Department that new classrooms would be ready at the end of this month, prompting angry parent to shut the school down.
Curse of the ‘blessers’
Health minister launches plan to keep girls in school - and out of the clutches of abusive sugar daddies.
Life of challenges for HIV-positive children
Thousands of children born HIV positive before effective treatment for their pregnant moms are now teenagers and young adults, struggling to negotiate life’s challenges.
ARVs for HIV negative sex workers
AIDS 2016
It might sound strange, but ARVs can prevent HIV as well as treat it. A new programme using ARVs as pre-exposure prophylaxis was launched recently. Lindiwe Msibi reports...
All eyes are on the World AIDS Conference 2016
As the countdown to the 21st International AIDS Conference to be held in Durban enters the last few days, the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality responded to SANAC Chairperson and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal for coordinated activities to mark the event.
Losing a child to HIV
After her first child died of AIDS and she miscarried her second, Melita enrolled in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme and saved her third.
Raising an HIV Positive child is not child’s play
Malebo* was sick when she gave birth to her daughter 12 years ago, and soon realised her newborn was too. Medical tests done at the time confirmed that both mother and child were HIV positive. She tells Mpho Lekgetho her story.
Finding out about my HIV status at 13
AIDS2016: Being a teen is hard enough, but for Bongani Radebe, it also meant discovering that he had been born with HIV
AIDS2016: Coming out – twice
It's hard enough having to tell your parents that you are gay - but a young Free State man also had to tell his loved ones he was HIV positive.
Fighting illegal abortion clinics
The Limpopo Department of Health is fighting to shut down a growing number of illegal abortion clinics in the Vhembe area – some targeting students specifically with 50 percent discount offers.
Limpopo gets first breast milk bank
Limpopo mothers have welcomed the opening of the first breast milk bank in the province, believing it will help to save babies.