Many new taverns in rural Limpopo have resulted in more alcoholics and problem drinkers in the area, prompting calls for counselling centres to be set up in order to deal with this fallout.
Mothers in Vhembe, Limpopo are crying for help because their children – particularly young girls – are using skin bleaching products.
WHILE eating soil has become an addiction for many African women in KwaZulu Natal, and other provinces around South Africa – it is a health issue triggered by iron and mineral deficiencies and can be treated.
There is hope for people living with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as the “gruelling” two-year treatment with “terrible side-effects” such as deafness can now be successfully shortened to just nine months.
Breast cancer is not an illness that affects only those who speak English and live in the city, says survivor Nelisa Sipamia, who grew up in a rural area, dependent on the public health care system.
Dr Marais, CEO of the Independent Clinical Oncology Network (ICON), examines the high cost of cancer in South Africa and the financial impact on the patient and practitioner.
Scores of Ekurhuleni women gathered together recently to join in a 4km fun walk – the first annual Breast Cancer Awareness Walk aimed at creating an awareness of the illness in the local community.
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.
A R630-million programme aimed at training 600 innovative leaders to address inequality in the health sector has been launched. The US-based Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) this week committed itself to training 30 young and mid-career people every year over the next…
Almost a quarter of the world’s population is infected with ‘latent’ tuberculosis (TB) - a dormant form of the disease, threatening the World Health Organisation’s aim to fully eliminate TB by 2050.
After feeling ill for months, 16-year-old Sinethemba Kuse received the news that she had multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from her local clinic in Khayelitsha outside of Cape Town in December last year.
Kuruman – a small town in the Northern Cape – has become a hot spot for human trafficking, with young women and children being targeted and in some cases even murdered.
Poor service levels at the Charles Johnson Memorial Gateway Clinic in KwaZulu Natal’s Umzinyathi district has been ongoing for so long that it is almost accepted as the clinic’s culture. A shortage of nurses and a confusing number system for patient queues are the main issues impacting heavily on both staff and clinic visitors.
Huge food price increases mean that many South Africans are eating less, skipping meals and buying filling food that lack nutrients.
Exposure to infectious patients, high HIV rates and a lack of ventilation in facilities are some of the reasons healthcare workers in South Africa have the one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) infection rates in the world.
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