Over a million Gauteng residents are exposed daily to high levels of uranium with some areas in the West Rand exceeding that of disaster zones from Chernobyl, site of the 1986 Ukrainian nuclear disaster.
Health-e News Print Editor Laura Lopez Gonzalez has won a Vodacom Journalist of the Year Regional Award for her investigation into the crippling state of Mpumalanga’s orthopaedic services.
Every day about 300 learners from Grade 1 to Grade 7 make their way to a dilapidated school in Limpopo, not knowing if they will return home.
The Gauteng Department of Health aims to test a million people for HIV by World AIDS Day on 1 December.
As mineworkers with silicosis resort to court this week (12 Oct) for permission to launch a class action case against the gold mines that ruined their health, communities countrywide are also struggling with the effects of mining.
Born blind, abandoned by her parents, then gang raped and contracting HIV, may be too much for any one person to handle in one lifetime.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has said there has been a “rise in incidents of corporal punishment in schools across the country” after it has received reports of the physical and verbal abuse of learners in at least seven Mpumalanga schools.
A four-year old Limpopo boy is breaking stigmas around disability.
In the Eastern Cape, 60-year-old men and women report never having seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly mix of management and money fuel poor access to emergency medical services.
As doctors increasingly using genetic tests to predict future health, some might not like what they find gazing into science’s new crystal ball.
The South African Human Rights Commission will launch a national investigation into the state of emergency medical services (EMS) after finding just 200 of about 416 Eastern Cape public ambulances are functional in the province of 6.5 million people.
Amid a dire shortage of ambulances in the Eastern Cape patients’ lives are at risk as many calls for help go unanswered. A new Health-e News documentary, Dying In Our Homes, reveals the impact on the lives of rural families.
Almost a year after hundreds of patient files were found stacked in the toilet of a Soshanguve clinic, renovations to expand the township’s Block X Clinic have begun.
Born into a world of silence, most deaf children will only learn sign language at the age of six – if they are lucky. Years of silence may take their toll on small children during a crucial time in their development.
For the next 15 years, the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals will guide what donors fund and what countries push – and the world may just take a page from Africa’s playbook as it pursue universal health coverage.
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