Gauteng Health Slammed Over HR Failures and Sick Leave Abuse
There are currently 20 employees on long-term temporary incapacity leave.
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Nurses back at work at Boitumelo Hospital Â
Nurses have ended their strike at Boitumelo Regional Hospital. They downed tools last week over safety issues, overtime and staff shortages. The National Health Department (NDoH) says the strike ended after a meeting between unions and the provincial health…
Unhappy Boitumelo nurses bring hospital to a standstill
Nurses continued their strike action at Boitumelo Regional Hospital on Monday over safety issues, overtime and staff shortages. The nurses downed tools on Friday, leaving patients unattended and unable to get their medication. Patients who queued early in the morning…
Delivering basic services is the key to delivering good health to South Africans
Political parties and their leaders have spent two months knocking on doors, trying to win votes in this local government election. But where do their commitments lie when it comes to delivering good health services, and what does the constitution…
South Africa is so overburdened by physical illnesses that mental health continues to take a backseat
The South African Federation of Mental Health has called on the government to urgently act to ensure accessing mental becomes easier for South Africans. Speaking during the national dialogue on mental health on Monday, Bharti Patel of the South African…
Dire shortage of dentists
Do you need a dentist and live in North West? Best you move, especially if your teeth need any special attention.
SA Health Review 2015: Nursing in crisis
Nursing is in crisis, with huge shortages, declining interest in the profession, lack of a caring ethos and an apparent disjuncture between nurses’ needs and those of the communities they serve.
Pharmacy interns help out at Soshanguve
University of Limpopo (UL) pharmacy students find out what the future holds as they begin practical work at a Soshanguve Clinic.
Health news at a glance – February
From cholera to the gene map to Nkosi Johnson'€™s twelfth birthday - a summary of the health issues that featured in the news over the past month.
Breastfeeding: Setting the Record Straight
The Mail & Guardian newspaper recently printed two highly critical responses to Charlene Smith'€™s article on free medication and milk formula to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV (Mail & Guardian, January 26 '€“ Feb 1), but a letter sent to the newspaper by Professor Hoosen "Jerry" Coovadia, co-convenor of the AIDS 2000 Conference, Professor Anna Coutsoudis and other colleagues at the University of Natal went unpublished. Coutsoudis approached Health-e to clarify several key issues regarding HIV transmission and breast-feeding.
Fertility research confirms what most women know
Research published in the British Medical Journal shows that it is impossible to predict ovulation - even among those women with regular menstrual cycles. It explains why the rhythm method for planning or preventing pregnancy is wholly unreliable.
Child sexual abuse and rise in HIV are connected
Researchers are concerned that the increase in the rate of sexual abuse of young girls, as well as increased mortality among girls aged between 15 - 19 years, are due to a change in men's sexual habits to avoid HIV by having sex with virgins and young girls. Jo Stein reports.
In search of voluntary HIV testing and counselling
Voluntary HIV testing and counselling is among the priorities listed by the South African health department in its HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan for South Africa 2000 '€“ 2005, but in reality it'€™s difficult to find a public clinic that will offer this service to citizens.
Can South African men make a difference?
South Africa has the largest HIV/AIDS population in the world and one of the fastest growing epidemics, with one in four women between the ages of 20 and 29 already infected with the virus. However, for the first time there are signs that HIV incidence '€“ the annual number of new infections - may have stabilised in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. JO STEIN reports.
Look back in anger?
The past 11 months have seen HIV/AIDS assume the spotlight in South Africa as never before. However, despite all the meetings, protests and discussions, people have continued to die from AIDS-related symptoms and the numbers of AIDS orphans and HIV positive babies have continued to climb. In this article, we take a month by month look at AIDS in South Africa in 2000.