About 200 Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members picked outside the South Gauteng High Court yesterday in support of TAC's application to become a friend of the court in what may become the country’s first class action suit against the gold industry.
With free treatment widely available, HIV is no longer a death sentence, but for many people newly diagnosed with the virus thoughts of death are still not far off.
Rape remains under-reported nationally but there may be no rapes more hidden than those committed within families.
The illegal dumping sites multiplying in Reitz, Free State are a sign of poor service delivery in the province’s Nketoana Local Municipality, allege residents.
The “new” Natalspruit Hospital in Vosloorus has been renamed for ANC activist Thelle Mogoerane.
Douglas patients in the Northern Cape have welcomed two new nurses for the town’s Breipaal Clinic after a previous staff shortage led to long queues and patients being turned away.
When taxi drivers work 16-hour days, health often takes a back seat, which is why the Mpumalanga Department of Health is bring health screenings to taxi drivers and commuters alike.
Nurse Precious Mashupi has gone from consulting at her local clinic to running her own business in a bid that she hopes will help increase access to women’s health services in Klerksdorp.
Young women make up about 25 percent of all new HIV infections in South Africa. This Women’s Month, we ask young women and men why they think young women are so vulnerable to the virus.
Mpumalanga has launched Operation Vuka Sisebente to improve coordination of service delivery between departments by launching the “war room” concept that has become the centre of KwaZulu-Natal’s HIV response.
Christmas came early for residents of Limpopo's Matavhela and Mafukani villages as families pulled together for the less fortunate.
While locals are still reeling about the suicide of 14-year-old Klara Göttert, who took her life at Northgate Mall this week, another mother in the Free State’s rural town of Bethlehem is also mourning the death by suicide of her 18-year-old daughter.
Soweto civil society groups say Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi should provide the province’s pupils with prophylaxis.
Residents of Soshanguve Block HH north of Pretoria say that they have been living with a spurting, stinking busted sewer. Some residents say they believe local government has ignored their repeated complaints because they do not pay rates.
Every year, thousands of South African girls fall pregnant. Teen mums from around the country say that the road to parenthood is lonely and the battle to stay in school is hard won.
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