Months after Ourhealth reported about longstanding illegal dumping sites flanking schools in Stinkwater outside Pretoria, the community has taken the problem into its own hands and started neighbourhood clean up campaigns.
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality hopes that by partnering with non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it can reach ambitious targets laid out in the country’s national HIV and tuberculosis (TB) plan.
Thandi* Maringa had returned home after three years of living on the streets. Although she was safely home, she could not outrun the consequences of life on the street that her family says ultimately killed her.
A recent trip to the Dr. George Mukhari Hospital emergency room has restored Kamogelo Dira’s* faith in the public health system.
Hammanskraal NGO Lesedi Care Givers north of Pretoria held a day-long event to raise awareness about HIV and gender-based violence (GBV).
With more than 100 informal settlements in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, taking HIV prevention and care into communities is crucial in addressing the metro’s high HIV prevalence rate, says local government.
Residents of the Northern Cape’s Lorato Park have refused to pay municipal bils until raw sewage alledgedly flooding their yards is clearned up.
Roads in John Dube Village outside Johannesburg are so bad that ambulances cannot reach critical patients. Instead, patients must walk or be carried to the main road to receive emergency help.
Health workers and home-based care givers from Limpopo’s Matavehela village recently spent the day at the local secondary school to take sex education out of the clinic and into the classroom.
As pneumonia remains a leading cause of death in South Africa, experts stress that early treatment is key to heading off this killer infection.
More than three decades into South Africa’s HIV epidemic, treatment is widely available and HIV is no longer a death sentence – but stigma might be.
As South Africans’ waistlines continue to grow, one Mpumalanga woman tells OurHealth about how weight problems have followed her through life like a shadow – and so did low self-esteem.
Mabopane outside Pretoria recently held a fun walk in order to raise funds for the Cancer Association of South Africa’s (CANSA) Gauteng office.
Areas of Winterveld about 40 kms outside of Pretoria say they are tired of relying on municipal water trucks as Rand Water pipes remain dry.
Nurses at Limpopo’s Thengwe Clinic decide to go above and beyond for one elderly patient after neighbours discover she has stopped taking her chronic medication.
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