Elizabeth Mahlangu is living with HIV. When her Daveyton clinic runs out of her antidepressant, it can cost her R110 to refill her prescription at a private pharmacy. All too often, those like Mahlangu suffer in silence, says the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
The Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has embarked on a public road show to educate patients on their rights. The move comes amid recent stiff criticism of the body.
Carrying a badge and wearing a uniform have not stopped Kuruman police from allegedly threatening sex workers in an attempt to coerce sex workers to provide their services for free, according to Northern Cape Provincial AIDS Council Chairperson Beau Nkaelang.
Lebohang Moabeng was diagnosed with kidney failure at the age of 17. Now, six years after a kidney transplant saved his life, he earned South Africa a bronze medal at the recent World Transplant Games.
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has charted another first for Africa as the hospital welcomes a new state-of-the-art machine that will allow women to be treated for fibroids without surgery. The machine has been billed as the first of its kind in Africa.
Every day about 300 learners from Grade 1 to Grade 7 make their way to a dilapidated school in Limpopo, not knowing if they will return home.
A four-year old Limpopo boy is breaking stigmas around disability.
Gauteng clinic committee members say they have waited three years for the Gauteng Department of Health announce new appointments – and for the department to make good on promises of pay allegedly made by former Health MEC Hope Papo.
Almost a year after hundreds of patient files were found stacked in the toilet of a Soshanguve clinic, renovations to expand the township’s Block X Clinic have begun.
Born into a world of silence, most deaf children will only learn sign language at the age of six – if they are lucky. Years of silence may take their toll on small children during a crucial time in their development.
The earlier deafness can be diagnosed, the better but it takes parents and teachers to know the signs and government to make screening mandatory, according to Likho Bottoman of the nongovernmental organisation Hi Hopes, which works with deaf children and their families.
When you spend long hours behind the wheel of a taxi, eating right can be the last thing on your mind but that is why a Tshwane clinic may have found an unlikely ally for a recent health promotion campaign.
Living near the banks of a multimillion rand dam is no guarantee that you will have water, Limpopo villagers have learned.
Mining companies may be taking “trillions of dollars” out of the country while leaving communities to foot the bill for mining’s high environmental price, say activists
Mpho Lekgheto’s brush with suicide changed her life. On the heels of the recent World Suicide Prevention Day, Lekgheto shares her story of hope and how she found the strength to not only cope but to devote her life to mental health.
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