Fighting illegal abortion clinics
The Limpopo Department of Health is fighting to shut down a growing number of illegal abortion clinics in the Vhembe area – some targeting students specifically with 50 percent discount offers.
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Quarter of clinics experience medicine stock outs
One in four public health facilities ran out of antiretroviral or TB medicine last year, with Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Free State being worst affected.
Community angry after files found in dump
Confidentiality is one of the cornerstones of health care. So when patients’ private records with sensitive information from a local clinic were found strewn across a local dumpster in Standerton, the town was in uproar.
Video: What happens to the blood you donate?
As South Africa observes National Blood Donor month, we take you behind the scenes into the labs of the South African National Blood Service (SANBS).
The politics of dry taps and broken toilets
Ongoing water shortages and broken toilets are sparking protests in Limpopo and Mpumalanga in the run-up to the municipal elections.
Patients allegedly turned away as hospital runs dry
Patients have accused Mpumalanga’s Themba Hospital of turning them away after taps recently ran dry at the hospital.
Mpumalanga holds first people’s health assembly
Mpumalanga recently welcomed its first provincial People’s Health Assembly as the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and others continue to bemoan staff shortages.
NHI: more pragmatism and less ideology
As South Africa grapples with how to implement “universal health service” via the National Health Insurance, a specialist advises more pragmatism and less ideology.
Africa Health – Africa’s largest healthcare exhibition
Health-e News is proud to be an official media partner of Africa Health running from 8 to 10 June 2016 at Johannesburg’s Gallagher Convention Centre.
App: HIV Clinical Mentor
Cape town-based company Aviro has created a free, mobile app designed to help South African health workers manage HIV.
Gates Foundation to invest R1.2b to close data gap
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will invest about R1.2 billion in the next three years to enable countries to count women and girls, and generate crucial data on hundreds of thousands of women around the world.
National Health Insurance: Bring in the specialists
There’s a dire shortage of medical specialists, yet provinces have cut budgets for their training. Specialists need to be involved in planning the NHI roll-out to prevent such things from happening, writes South African Society of Anaesthesiologists CEO Natalie Zimmelman.
Africa Health – Africa’s largest healthcare exhibition
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Video: ‘You have to die with dignity’
Millions of South Africans live with serious illness and when the pain becomes too much, many turn to hospice.
Africa Health – Africa’s largest healthcare exhibition
Health-e News is proud to be an official media partner of Africa Health running from 8 to 10 June 2016 at Johannesburg’s Gallagher Convention Centre.