Hundred-year old primary school still has pit toilets
One of the oldest Primary Schools in Limpopo, Lukau Primary, does not have toilets.
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Co-ordinating HIV approaches in Msukaligwa
The Local Aids Council (LAC) of the Msukaligwa was resurrected this month in response to the high prevalence of HIV-infection in the Gert Sibande district.
Clinic has no water to wash newborns
Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe has had no running water for three weeks.
Community cleans clinic
Community members and patients of Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe spent their 67 minutes on Mandela Day cleaning their clinic, but they don’t only help on one day a year, because they say they value their clinic highly.
Only son lost to botched circumcision
At Ngalavhani village in Vhembe parents are grieving the loss of their only son after complications from the circumcision he got he got during initiation rights in the mountain.
Stroke survivor needs care
Sina Bostander, a 44-year old stroke survivor from Victoria West, is very disappointed with the lack of care that was shown after her release from hospital.
Hospital gets water due to councillor’s quick action
Hardly twenty days after he promised to deliver water to Donald Frazer Hospital, Vhembe Executive Mayor Tshitereke Matibe has lived up to his promise by having a borehole drilled at the hospital.
Use of kgaba to induce labour could be dangerous
The use of the herb Kgaba among rural women to induce labour is cause for concern as it is thought that the severe labour pains it brings on can cause foetal distress, harm the uterus and increase the likelikhood of Caesarean section.
Patients worried as medicine stock-outs continue
Patients who are not receiving chronic anti-retroviral and tuberculosis medications due to stock-outs at clinics are worried that they will develop resistance to their treatment.
‘Shame’ of homosexuality prevents men from getting health care
There is a high burden of HIV in Mpumalanga amongst men over the age of 25 who have sex with men, a study conducted by Anova Health Institute and the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) in Gert Sibande and Ehlanzeni district municipalities has revealed.
Illegal dumping crisis in Jouberton
Residents of Jouberton have resorted to dumping rubbish illegally because there are not enough municipal trucks to take rubbish away. The unhealthy living conditions in this, the largest township in the City of Maslosana are cause for concern.
Tackling teenage pregnancy
John Taolo Gaetsewe district has the highest teenage pregnancy in the Northern Cape. This is according to HIV and AIDS district coordinator Sonia Makoko during a teenage pregnancy dialouge in Maruping community Hall in Kuruman.
Tigane residents want services
Hartebeesfontein - Informal settlement residents – many of whom come from nearby farms - in Tigane township, about 20km from Klerksdorp, are facing serious health risks.
Protesting villagers get their medicine
More than fifty regular patients at the Village Clinic in the OR Tambo District had a sit-in at the clinic when they were told that their Efavirenz tablets – an anti-retroviral drug for HIV-positive patients – was not available.
Stockouts continue
Patients and nurses particularly in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Mpumalanga continue to report medicine stock-outs at local clinics, including shortages of antiretroviral medicine.