When the Gauteng Department of Health terminated its contract with private health service provider, Life Esidimeni, hundreds of mentally ill patients were placed in the care of people ill-equipped to look after them.
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Residents of Berea – a high density suburb in Joburg’s inner city – say their area has been neglected, they are not receiving services and their health is at risk because of filth.
There are just over three weeks to go until the inaugural eHealthALIVE2016 event takes place at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 6 to 7 September 2016.
From violent male partners to vaginal bacteria that make a woman more likely to get HIV, it is dangerous to be a women in South Africa.
It protects the health of mother and baby, increases intelligence, and reduces behavioural problems among children.
A teenager from Soweto who has been suffering from elephantiasis for six years, and who only recently discovered that he was born HIV positive, will soon receive the treatment he desperately needs.
We are on the brink of getting a new National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV, TB and STIs, and it is vital that the new plan avoids the mistakes of the past
Conditions at the dilapidated Hlalelani Primary School in Limpopo have continued to deteriorate, despite promises by the provincial Education Department that new classrooms would be ready at the end of this month, prompting angry parent to shut the school down.
The process of getting transgender declassified as a mental disorder took its first steps with a study conducted in Mexico City.
Three years after a young man was abducted and killed at an initiation school, some schools are working with Western doctor to safeguard initiates’ health.
The odds are stacked against young women, making them continually at risk of HIV as long as society is dominated by men and relationships between young girls and older men are the norm.
The more knowledge we accumulate about HIV, the trickier the virus appears to be. And despite sophisticated ARVs, people are tired of taking their pills.
If we don’t get more heterosexual men to test for HIV, the world is going to miss  the UNAIDS target of 90 percent of HIV positive people knowing their status by 2020, according to experts.
Sex workers find a way past the everyday violence and abuse they experience at the hands of law enforcement – by becoming activists.
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