Health comes home to East Rand elderly
After elderly and frail visitors at an East Rand drop in centre could not get to health services, the Gauteng Department of Health has vowed to bring the health services to them.
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Mothers swear off traditional circumcision after boys’ deaths
Two devastated Limpopo mothers have urged parents to get their sons circumcised in hospitals after their sons died during botched initiation circumcisions.
Karate-fighting nurse takes fitness out of the ring, into hospital
Mamokete Moleme may look like your average Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital Complex health worker, but on the weekends this mild-mannered nurse trades the wards for the ring as a karate champion.
MDR-TB treatment comes closer but not close enough
As many as about 60 percent of patients started on treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) will not be cured. With odds already stacked against them, Eastern Cape MDR-TB patients face a long and costly journey for treatment.
Mothers, children collateral damage in immigration clampdown
In South Africa, all uninsured pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under six are entitled to free health care. But amid confusing provinicial policies, some health care workers may have unwittingly become a law unto themselves with dire consequence for immigrants and their children.
Tshwane rolls out new medicine pick up programme
Tshwane has become the latest district to roll out a new programme that will let patients pick up chronic medication at community pharmacies.
Limpopo gogos swipe condoms for aches
That condom lubricant can soothe arthritic joints may have become the condom myth that just will not die as fresh reports suggest elderly Limpopo residents are falling victim to the hype.
Rejection remains real concern for people living with HIV
More than three decades into South Africa’s HIV epidemic, HIV knowledge in the country is dropping and falling levels of HIV savvy may have real consequences for those living with HIV.
Traditional health practitioners should be regulated, summit says
Traditional health practioners should be regulated say some Northern Cape traditional healers as the Department of Health looks to integrate healers into HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and chronic illnesses programmes.
Medical students cautioned as they head to Cuba
The North West province has warned 35 medical students headed to Cuba that bad behaviour abroad will not be looked on kindly.
Kidney donor shortage fuels dialysis scarcity
South Africa performs less than 300 kidney transplants annually, according to the South African Renal Society. As more people await life-saving transplants, the demand for dialysis is increasing and the country is not keeping up.
Complexity of change slows NHI White Paper
‘Soon, soon’ – the complexity of radically transforming the health system underlies the snail’s pace of the National Health Insurance (NHI) White Paper’s development, but a lot is happening to improve the quality of public health in preparation for one universal health system. Kerry Cullinan reports for Health-e News.
Reporting rape when the police don’t take you seriously
Despite rape being a serious problem in South Africa, some police officers still don’t know how to treat rape survivors properly.
Six steps to take if you have been raped
As Women's Month winds to an end, Rape Crisis gives advice for rape survivors.
Civil society groups push for entry into silicosis case
Health and gender activists are likely to know by the week’s end whether they will be able to testify in what could be the country’s first class action case against the gold industry.