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.
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.
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.
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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 mothers have welcomed the opening of the first breast milk bank in the province, believing it will help to save babies.
Two new clinics are transforming the lives of rural communities in Mpumalanga, where people no longer have had to travel long distances to get medical attention
Residents are tired of people dumping their rubbish wherever they feel like it in Pestana
The Limpopo health department says the shortage of antiretroviral medicine in Vuwani clinics is related to a national supply problem rather than violence in the area.
In a remote rural village, community leaders are educating the elderly about how to stay healthy
For over a year a social worker has worked tirelessly to try and reunite a sick 86-year-old Limpopo woman with her long lost family, but to no avail.
A gay-friendly clinic was launched this week in Ermelo in Mpumalanga amid a warning from the provincial health MEC that homophobic staff needed to improve their attitude.
Confidentiality is one of the cornerstones of health care. So when patients’ private records with sensitive information from a local clinic were found strewn across a local dumpster in Standerton, the town was in uproar.
Three community health workers have dedicated their lives to helping vulnerable Wentworth residents.
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