North West families turn to food gardens amid food hikes
As drought and a weaker rand conspire to raise food prices, families in the North West may be hardest hit. One family has found a fix for high food prices.
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World endorses more ‘war on drugs’
The world’s hardline "war on drugs" has resulted in violence, criminalised drug users and exacerbated HIV and Hepatitis C infection. Yet the UN has just endorsed a similar approach.
Distributing clean needles to curb the spread of HIV
The Step Up Project runs needle exchange programmes with injecting drug users in Cape Town, Durban and Tshwane.
Sugar tax could save South Africa billions
South Africa’s recently announced tax on sugar-sweetened beverages could save South Africa billions if implemented over the next 20 years, according to recent University of Witwatersrand research.
Drugs: World contemplates punishment or rehabilitation
The prohibition of illegal drugs has failed to stop drug use, instead fanning a massive and violent black market. This week, the UN meets to discuss whether its ‘war on drugs’ approach needs to change
Drought leaves Limpopo clinic without working toilets
A Limpopo clinic serving more than five villages has been left without working toilets as the ongoing drought continues to ravage local water supplies.
New HIV pill slated for privileged few?
Better HIV treatment is coming to South Africa, but a lack of generic producers of the new antiretroviral dolutegravir may keep it in the hands of the few for years to come.
Quarter of surveyed health facilities report stock outs
Almost 25 percent of health facilities surveyed nationally have gone without HIV or tuberculosis (TB) medicines at least once in the last year, according to preliminary survey results released this week.
Medical staff caught changing medicine expiry dates
The Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) allegedly discovered Charlotte Maxeke Hospital staff changing medicine expiration dates to conceal expired drugs, but staff at the Johannesburg hospital may not be the only ones, warns the OHSC following recent inspections.
A practical guide to preparing to die
Do you want to die in hospital full of tubes, or peacefully at home with loved ones? Now is the time to make proper arrangements, warns Hospice Palliative Care Association of SA (HPCA).
Johannesburg to launch citywide diabetes campaign
In search of jobs and a better life, droves of South Africans are flocking to the country's cities but a switch to city living could come at a deadly price.
VIDEO: What’s for lunch, Jo’burg?
South Africa’s National Development Plan estimates that 70 percent of us will call cities home by 2030 but. city living could come at a cost to your health.
Cancer an unknown killer in rural South Africa
For many women in rural areas, cancer remains a killer and some say they knew too little to see the dreaded diagnosis coming.
Death, dying and silence in the Eastern Cape
One year after the South African Human Rights Commission found the Eastern Cape had failed to uphold citizens’ right to emergency care, communities are still waiting for answers, writes Ntsiki Mpulo.
East Rand hospital allegedly discharges woman with fistula
Vuyolwethu Noteyi, 21, claims Vosloorus’ Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital discharged her with a fistula and that doctors refused to fix it for months until Health-e News intervened.