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Generic applications flood the MCC

News

The Medicine Control Council should limit generic applications to seven per innovator medicine to cut the backlog that is blocking cheaper, better drugs from entering the SA market. By Henry Leng

healthe
July 13, 2016

Raising an HIV Positive child is not child’s play

Health, Our Health

Malebo* was sick when she gave birth to her daughter 12 years ago, and soon realised her newborn was too. Medical tests done at the time confirmed that both mother and child were HIV positive. She tells Mpho Lekgetho her story.

mpholekgetho
July 13, 2016

Finding out about my HIV status at 13

Health, Our Health

AIDS2016: Being a teen is hard enough, but for Bongani Radebe, it also meant discovering that he had been born with HIV

Bontle Motsoeneng
July 12, 2016

Search for AIDS cure to be intensified

Health, Health Systems

The search for an AIDS cure will be intensified, according to the International AIDS Society (IAS), which yesterday published its cure strategies and priorities.

Amy Green
July 12, 2016

If you are sane, you need to read this

Mental Health

I don’t trust my psychiatrist. She is a lovely woman, expedient and efficient at her job, and she is the only one of the many specialists that I have consulted who has successfully prescribed medication that does its job.

mia-mccarthy
July 11, 2016
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AIDS2016: Coming out – twice

Health, Our Health

It's hard enough having to tell your parents that you are gay - but a young Free State man also had to tell his loved ones he was HIV positive.

Bontle Motsoeneng
July 10, 2016

Fighting illegal abortion clinics

Health Systems, News, Our Health

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.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
July 8, 2016

Limpopo gets first breast milk bank

News, Our Health

Limpopo mothers have welcomed the opening of the first breast milk bank in the province, believing it will help to save babies.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
July 8, 2016

Platinum status for new clinic

News, Our Health

Two new clinics are transforming the lives of rural communities in Mpumalanga, where people no longer have had to travel long distances to get medical attention

cynthiamaseko
July 7, 2016

Health-e News intern wins a study tour to US

News

Health-e News intern Thabo Molelekwa has been selected, along with three other journalists, to be part of a study tour to the United States later this year.

‘My street is a dump site’

Determinants Of Health, Our Health

Residents are tired of people dumping their rubbish wherever they feel like it in Pestana

Tsepo Mofokeng
July 6, 2016

Refinery’s ‘potent fog’ sparks health crisis

Determinants Of Health

Nose bleeds and watery eyes are just some of the symptoms experienced by a small community next door to Lonmin’s platimum refinery, but Lonmin denies any responsibility

jamesthabo
July 4, 2016

Counting the costs of flu

News

The flu season can see you coughing up about R4000 in costs and the South African economy loses more than R2-billion because of colds and flu every year

thabo-molelekwa
July 1, 2016

Limpopo reassures patients on ARVs

Health, Our Health

The Limpopo health department says the shortage of antiretroviral medicine in Vuwani clinics is related to a national supply problem rather than violence in the area.