With many children becoming sexually active at 14 years old, the Department of Basic Education’s Chief Director for Care and Support in Schools Dr Faith Kumalo has warned that sex education and life skills must begin as early as Grade R.
With just 393 ambulances on Gauteng roads, the province is far from meeting national standards for emergency vehicles despite 49 recently procured ambulances. Now one Eldorado Park family says they have paid the ultimate price for the province’s ambulance shortage.
With only eight government-run old age homes nationwide, unregulated facilities may be preying on the elderly alongside loan sharks and even pensioners’ own families, according to a new South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) report.
More than three years after Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi first announced National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts, Health-e News tracks what the NHI has meant on the ground and in people's lives.
With almost 100 community health teams scouring the district’s streets, Tshwane and North West's Dr Kenneth Kaunda districts are leading South Africa in pioneering community health as part National Health Insurance (NHI).
For the country’s rural children, the revitalisation of school health services could be a lifeline - if doctors and specialists answer the call.
Poor conditions in some National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts are causing general practitioners (GPs) to think twice about working in public health
There’s a quiet revolution in one of the poorest districts in the land, where health workers have moved out of health facilities into communities to prevent rather than cure health problems
Patients in rural KwaZulu-Natal are able to pick up their medicine from a wide range of local pick-up points, in a national experiment aimed at cutting the long queues at hospital pharmacies.
One common medical aid for all South Africans, as envisaged by government’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, is many years away, but many of the country’s 10 pilot sites are making progress.
A Saturday night blaze has destroyed about R7 million worth of medical supplies at Boksburg’s OR Tambo Memorial Hospital after fire gutted the hospital’s storage facilities.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the Gates Foundation has helped to vaccinate half-a-billion children worldwide and made a massive contribution to global health.
The stream of media coverage about diets may suggest that the majority of South Africans are pre-occupied with the latest food fads. But what people choose to eat is more often dictated by class and their purses than clinical decisions about what is good for them, writes Thandi Puoane.
The Gauteng Department of Health has almost halved the number of people awaiting sight-restoring cataract operations in the last year but more than 3,000 people are still waiting for their turn to see again.
Both WHO and new UN sustainable development goals criticised by Gates Foundation Global Partners delegates
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