As Free State health services allegedly continue to deteriorate and prompt a heated battle between politicians and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists, a new organisation has joined the fray as a former Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) leader breaks from TAC.
Alcohol remains a killer on the country's roads, and despite government proposals to curb drinking holes, taverns continue to flourish.
Johannesburg web developer Mulalo Simeti grew up in rural Limpopo, but when she heard reports that her local primary school was collapsing, she headed home to get to work.
Several malaria cases are being reported in northern Limpopo daily, according to Limpopo Department of Health Spokesperson Mack Lesufi.
While science has doubled our life spans, for many elderly people, the last phase of their lives is often a painful series of medical interventions that delay death but do not add value to life. What should the role of medicine be at the end of a person’s life?
For thirsty Qwaqwa residents in the Free State, their next drink of water may be more likely to come on wheels instead of from the tap as reservoir water levels run low.
About half of South African adults are obese. The tide of obesity washing over our shores has spared our children and reversing it has to be a family affair, say dieticians.
When Gloria Shiba got sick, she refused to believe she could be at risk of tuberculosis (TB). Now, her mother says she believes Shiba's decision to keep her illness hidden may have cost Shiba her life – it may also reflect a new kind of stigma.
Gauteng's Jubilee District Hospital recently marked six decades of community service north of Pretoria.
Following reports of shortages of 300mg lamivudine tablets, the Department of Health has assured the public there is no stock out of the antiretroviral (ARV) and issued clinician guidance regarding the formulation, which will no longer be offered on tender.
Imagine being in labour, vulnerable and scared and being told by hospital staff to clean up your own blood. For years, reports of women being abused during labour at public health facilities have made headlines. Now, a kinder, gentler birth for many South Africa women may come from an unlikely place.
Some Gauteng patients living with HIV are going without a life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) as the province suffers a shortage of the ARV lamivudine.
As parents and students nationwide celebrate – or bemoan – yesterday’s matric results, education remains out of reach for more than half-a-million children living with disabilities who may never get the chance to write their matric exams.
Clinic nurses in Hammanskraal north of Pretoria allegedly threatened to beat the family of one pregnant woman after she came to the clinic fearing that she was losing her baby.
Medical male circumcision campaigns have an added bonus, say HIV activists who add that as more and more men line up for “the snip”– more men are learning their HIV statuses.
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