A 26-year-old North West man recently killed himself after being diagnosed with HIV, leaving his family and two-year-old child in shock. A local counsellor says the death underscores the need for better counselling.
Tshwane District Health Services are slated to receive about R114 million for infrastructure development, including seven new clinics, according to District Health Manager Mothomone Pitsi.
The North West’s move to put more than 300 community health workers on bicycles has met resistance from workers and union representatives as they alleged they were never consulted about the bikes – and that they remain underpaid.
Mom gets toe amputated for no reason when wrongly diagnosed as diabetic, claims son.
A recent cash-in-transit heist at a grant pay point has led the Department of Social Development to relook pay point security nationwide.
Mothers allege some Gauteng hospitals are withholding newborn babies from immigrant mums until they can pay for delivering at public hospitals. Others say health care workers have threatened not to treat children unless bills are paid in full.
from foreign mums until bills for delivering at public hospitals are paid.
No girl should have to miss school because of her period, says Khayelitsha resident Karabo Monatisi who has started distributing sanitary pads to schoolgirls in the township.
A new, viral social media campaign is encouraging South Africans to “burn for burns” as doctors warn that cold weather and load shedding are likely to prompt a spike in burn injuries this winter.
A few years ago, Lebohang Moabeng, 29, from Jouberton, Klerksdorp, was at death’s door. Having dialysis three times a week, his body was under stress and he was constantly in pain and tired. Life was bleak and his prognosis was poor.
The East Rand Nkuna family alleges that the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality installed a sewer on their doorstep.
After patient reports of dirty loos and cupboards full of cockroaches, the Gauteng Department of Health has said maintenance and cleaning units at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital are redoubling efforts to ensure the hospital is clean.
Teachers and children are celebrating new, safer toilets at one Limpopo school as the province slowly revamps school sanitation following the horrific pit latrine drowning of 6-year-old Michael Komape.
For Pretty Nhlabathi, switching to government’s new birth control implant spiced up life in the bedroom – and gave her a choice about baby number four.
North West bus driver Johannes Mpofu Ngwanathota says he fears for the safety of the more than 200 young learners he transports daily in a school bus meant for only half that load. He blames not only the bus owner, but a lack of schools in the rural North West community.
In the land of gold, too few know gold’s deadly price as civil society groups embark on silicosis awareness campaign,
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