Dire healthworker shortage
The World Health Report 2006 paints a dire picture of massive healthworker shortages in poor countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa where the rich developed nations plunder the African health workforce.
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Partnerships are crucial if health crisis is to be addressed
The World Health Day theme, 'working together for health', comes at a time when the South African health sector faces painful divisions.
Staffing critical for health care – report
Health workers save lives and we have to value them as an investment. That is the message from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to all governments of the world, this World Health Day.
Work on a pioneering vaccine begins Living with AIDS # 253
A first in HIV vaccine trials is taking place in South Africa. A vaccine will be tested on people already infected with the HI-virus in the hope that it will delay or prevent their progression to full-blown AIDS.
Men prefer guns to kill partners
Guns are the weapon of choice for South African men who kill their partners, yet authorities seldom remove firearms from men who have a history of domestic violence.
Review of ban on MSM blood
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The South African National Blood Service is considering revising its policy that bars men who have sex with men from donating blood. This follows a similar announcement recently made by the Food and Drug Administration, the medicines regulatory body in the United States.
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Race & seniority weaken workplace peer education
It is natural that people will only discuss personal matters with people that they feel comfortable with. That is why HIV peer educators in the workplace are important both to educate fellow employees and to help management respond better to HIV and AIDS. But results of a year-long survey show that they often work under challenging circumstances.
Registrar resigns after nepotism report
Allied Health Registrar and half-sister quit after 'continuous allegations of nepotism'
A battle for health in Diepsloot
Over-crowding and long queues are part of daily life for Diepsloot residents seeking primary health care at the Johannesburg informal settlement's O.R. Tambo clinic. And staff shortages are the main fuelling factor.
Shacklands pose biggest challenge to eThekwini metro
Thulani Shezi's New Germany Road settlement is one of about 500 shacklands in the eThekwini metro, and it only had a few portable toilets and a distant tap before the ablution block was built two years ago.
Living without hope
Gloria Vena has given up swatting the flies gathering around her face. Her eyes seem empty and distant as she stares out the front door of her house, the back of her neighbour's rickety shack a few steps away from her makeshift front door.
Diepsloot – Long queues to health
Residents in Diepsloot and Orange Farm struggle to get basic services such as clean water and sanitation.
Big spender Ekurhuleni fails to deliver
The District Health Barometer paints a fascinating picture of how the country's 53 health districts are faring to keep their residents healthy.
Widening gulf between Khayelitsha and Cape Town
For many Khayelitsha residents, water is a shared tap, sanitation a non-existent luxury and diarrhoea, a constant reality. On the eve of local elections, Health-e investigates how access to basic services impacts on residents' health.
All’s not well at Drieziek 6, Orange Farm
In Drieziek 6 ' Orange Farm, 60 km south of Johannesburg, not one household has running water, let alone a toilet.