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[Op-Ed]Sexual and reproductive health and rights are an important component of human rights

Health

As South Africa joins the global community in fighting a pandemic, this presents an opportune moment to also reflect holistically on our health system, especially health services for womxn. As today marks World Health Day, it’s also important to remind ourselves of the importance of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for our overall health and well-being. By Angelica Pino, Programmes Director, Sonke Gender Justice.

Health-e News
April 7, 2020

Zuzimpilo not making the numbers Living with AIDS # 303

News

Late last November, the first subsidised, low-cost HIV and AIDS care clinic, opened in Johannesburg. Five months later, clinic management is concerned that demand for the service hasn't quite reached expectations.

Health-e News
May 3, 2007

Zim collapse a threat to SA AIDS programme ‘ Hogan

Health Systems

Drug resistant HIV resulting from the collapse of Zimbabwe's health system will undermine success of South Africa's HIV/AIDS programme, according to Health Minister Barbara Hogan.

Health-e News
April 6, 2009

Zille enters NHI debate

Health Systems

Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille enters the National Health Insurance debate in her weekly newsletter South Africa Today. She argues that NHI would deepen the failure of public health and reduce the benefits of private health.

Health-e News
June 19, 2009

Youth health issues under the spotlight

Our Health

Bloemfontein. ' In December last year, a National Youth Camp was hosted here by the Department of Social Development to get young people talking about the health and social issues they face, and to help them find solutions to these challenges.

Health-e News
January 11, 2013

Young people turn the tide against depression

Our Health

A 26-year-old man from Botshabelo in the Free State, who has battled through years of deep depression, has decided to start a support group to help others like himself.

Health-e News
October 8, 2018

Young mom wants FS health department to pay for ‘negligence’

News, Free State, Our Health

Scared, in pain and out of options, Kebuile Morapedi took to social media in August. “I need help. I’ve lodged a complaint at the clinic, but still nothing. I have two children who are three-years-old and I’m still young. I…

Molefi Sompane
September 11, 2023

Xenophobic violence spills over to pregnant women

Xenophobic violence spills over to labour wards

News

Xenophobia in South Africa has spilt over into the health sector, with some foreigners afraid to visit local clinics and hospitals. A Zimbabwean woman, Yolanda Dumpson, shared her traumatic birthing experience at a public hospital in Johannesburg last year. Pregnant…

Lilita Gcwabe
August 19, 2022

Xenophobia in the medical field

Our Health

With sporadic and violent xenophobic attacks in South Africa making global and local headlines, the medical industry is also experiencing this worrying phenomenon.

Health-e News
November 13, 2019

XDR TB trial saves lives

Health

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is usually a death sentence. But a breakthrough South African trial announced at the World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool last week may have changed this.

Amy Green
October 31, 2016

Worst cholera epidemic kills hundreds in Angola

Health Systems

Cholera has already claimed more than 1300 lives in Angola. The death toll from the 3-month cholera epidemic is rising on a daily basis.

Health-e News
May 19, 2006

World Suicide Prevention Day: Help is around the corner

News, Free State

As South Africans mark World Suicide Prevention Day, experts warn that many people who suffer from mental health issues either don’t know where to get help, or refuse to do so due to stigma.

Molefi Sompane
September 10, 2021

World Soccer’s Hidden HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the 2010 World Cup

Health

OPINION: "I've written this article to argue that FIFA, as the world's football authority, has an ethical responsibility for social action, in fact, it owes the soccer-playing world - effectively all of humanity - a massive sustainable and measurably successful longitudinal social project starting from THIS World Cup, a moral imperative on which millions of lives will hang in the balance. By Richard Witzig

Health-e News
June 30, 2010

World leaders urged to continue funding AIDS programmes

Health, Health Systems

CAPE TOWN ' The world's foremost AIDS scientists last night (Sunday) accused the G8 countries of 'astonishing delinquency', being 'crazy' and 'not just pathetic, but criminal' by failing at their recent meeting in Italy to renew their 2005 Gleneagles commitment to the universal treatment of HIV.