Khayelitsha man makes menstruation his business
No girl should have to miss school because of her period, says Khayelitsha resident Karabo Monatisi who has started distributing sanitary pads to schoolgirls in the township.
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Load shedding, winter expected to fuel burn injuries
A new, viral social media campaign is encouraging South Africans to “burn for burns” as doctors warn that cold weather and load shedding are likely to prompt a spike in burn injuries this winter.
‘AIDS changed everything’
The global goal of getting 15 million people on life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has been met nine months early, the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) announced today.
North West man to represent SA at World Transplant Games
A few years ago, Lebohang Moabeng, 29, from Jouberton, Klerksdorp, was at death’s door. Having dialysis three times a week, his body was under stress and he was constantly in pain and tired. Life was bleak and his prognosis was poor.
Move the sewage or move us, says family
The East Rand Nkuna family alleges that the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality installed a sewer on their doorstep.
Stuck in a limbo, Free State’s community healthworkers struggle to get jobs back
In April 2014, the Free State health department terminated the services of around 3,800 community healthworkers (CHW) – apparently for being too old and under-educated - despite many years’ service supplementing the province’s inadequate care for its sick.
Department of Health looks to clean up ‘dirty’ hospital
After patient reports of dirty loos and cupboards full of cockroaches, the Gauteng Department of Health has said maintenance and cleaning units at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital are redoubling efforts to ensure the hospital is clean.
NHLS workers picket head office
Employees at the National Health Laboratory Services’ (NHLS) Sandringham office embarked on a lunchtime picket earlier today as they continue to push for a wage increase.
Video: ‘I’m just a girl who is attracted to another girl’
To commemorate Youth Month in June, Health-e News is broadcasting a five-part adolescent health series on Morning Live (SABC 2). This insert – the fifth in the series – follows Mpho, a lesbian youth, as she learns to be more open about her sexuality.
Safer loos for Limpopo school
Teachers and children are celebrating new, safer toilets at one Limpopo school as the province slowly revamps school sanitation following the horrific pit latrine drowning of 6-year-old Michael Komape.
The call unanswered: Emergency services ‘non-existent’ in E.Cape communities
Pensioners living in rural Eastern Cape villages say they have never seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly combination of poor management and budget shortfalls keeps ambulances out of rural communities.
Implant spices up Mpumalanga mum’s bedroom
For Pretty Nhlabathi, switching to government’s new birth control implant spiced up life in the bedroom – and gave her a choice about baby number four.
North West school shortage fuels dodgy buses
North West bus driver Johannes Mpofu Ngwanathota says he fears for the safety of the more than 200 young learners he transports daily in a school bus meant for only half that load. He blames not only the bus owner, but a lack of schools in the rural North West community.
Too few know gold’s heavy price
In the land of gold, too few know gold’s deadly price as civil society groups embark on silicosis awareness campaign,
Opinion: I’ll #BreastfeedAnywhereAnytime
Thousands of rands have been spent promoting breastfeeding for babies, so why do we treat mums who do like criminals, asks Sizile Makola, who has started the #BreastfeedAnywhereAnytime social media campaign.