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Addiction & Rehabilitation

Rehab on the cards for rural addicts - Comments (0)
Plans to upgrade Joburg’s health facilities - Comments (0)
Drunk employees delay clinic construction - Comments (0)
Call for graphic health images on SA cigarette boxes - Comments (0)
SA kids need family support to avoid drugs - Comments (0)
Eating soil has become an addiction for many African women - Comments (0)
Nyaope’s deadly grip on Orange Farm - Comments (0)

Ageing

Village pensioners rely on health care workers - Comments (0)
Keeping fit rejuvenates Alex senior citizens - Comments (0)
My lifestyle has kept me healthy says woman (96) - Comments (0)
Growing problem of HIV and hypertension - Comments (0)
Alzheimer’s Disease: Forgetting about the elderly - Comments (1)

AIDS 2016

“I failed my daughter” - Comments (0)
AIDS-free baby girls face infection in their teens - Comments (0)
Glimmers of hope and sobering setbacks - Comments (0)
Growing problem of HIV and hypertension - Comments (0)
AIDS funding has ‘dwindled to nothing in Zim’ - Comments (1)
Sex workers unite against police - Comments (0)
Need double the efficiency, says Gates - Comments (0)

AIDS 2017

Men missing in HIV fight, says SANAC CEO - Comments (0)
HIV negative sex workers find it hard to take ARVs - Comments (0)

Alcohol & Drugs

Liquor board fights alcohol abuse in rural Eastern Cape - Comments (0)
SA kids need family support to avoid drugs - Comments (0)
Nyaope’s deadly grip on Orange Farm - Comments (0)
Distributing clean needles to curb the spread of HIV - Comments (0)
Drugs: World contemplates punishment or rehabilitation - Comments (0)
Soweto community marches against drug abuse - Comments (0)
How to survive student drinking - Comments (0)

Archive

“Stop & go” HIV treatment sabotage - Comments (0)
Radio unit to close in 2013 - Comments (0)

Bio-technology

Your genes could predict your future, but would you want them to? - Comments (0)
Key cold chain for medical research Living with AIDS # 411 - Comments (0)
‘Personalised medicine’ threatens to widen medical gap even further - Comments (0)
Radiation exposed workers want compensation - Comments (0)
Call for control of genetic testing and information - Comments (0)

breast cancer

One small step closer for breast cancer drug - Comments (0)
One woman’s brave fight against breast cancer - Comments (0)

Breastfeeding

SA kids in big fat trouble, warns Federation - Comments (0)
Breastfeeding’s protections last into old age - Comments (0)

Cancer

Plans on track to ease KZN health woes - Comments (0)
Childhood cancer not a priority - Comments (0)
Cancer treatment in the public sector ‘in crisis’? - Comments (0)
Cancer is not a death sentence - Comments (0)
One small step closer for breast cancer drug - Comments (0)
“You will be remembered comrade” - Comments (0)
Prehistoric bone cancer discovered by local researchers - Comments (0)

Cancer and Tobacco Control

Tobacco companies target African kids - Comments (0)
Call for graphic health images on SA cigarette boxes - Comments (0)
A practical guide to preparing to die - Comments (0)
Cancer an unknown killer in rural South Africa - Comments (0)
Public meetings rally support for cervical cancer jab - Comments (1)
South Africa’s rural cancer conundrum - Comments (2)
Patents could block access to breast cancer treatment for decades - Comments (0)

Children's Health

Welfare system fails rural orphans - Comments (0)
Childhood cancer not a priority - Comments (0)
Play used to boost kids’ learning skills - Comments (0)
Mom bans junk after 5-year-old son hits 45kg - Comments (0)
Video: Tuck shops culprits in rising Childhood Obesity - Comments (0)
SA girls more obese than boys, but why? - Comments (0)
SA kids in big fat trouble, warns Federation - Comments (0)

Comment

Corruption is killing us - Comments (0)

Diabetes

There’s a new killer in town - Comments (0)
Big increase in diabetes deaths - Comments (0)
Fight to beat diabetes and early death - Comments (0)
Video: Sugary drinks fuel taxi drivers - Comments (0)
Video: No quick fix for overcoming Obesity - Comments (0)
Diabetes and inequality: Most Africans undiagnosed - Comments (0)
Diet denialism on Diabetes Day - Comments (0)

Disability

After 18 years, disabled man finally mobile - Comments (0)
Community accuse mom of neglecting disabled son - Comments (0)
Disabled man denied education and healthcare - Comments (0)
Top honours for visually impaired matrics - Comments (0)
Dead psychiatric patient was ‘well’ before being moved - Comments (0)
White Paper: The Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Comments (0)
After 10 years, disabled man still can’t get grant - Comments (0)

Diseases and Disorders

WHO: Roadmap to end cholera - Comments (0)
Woman battles bedwetting nightmare - Comments (0)
Woman remains positive she will be cured of her rare disease - Comments (1)
Search for AIDS cure to be intensified - Comments (0)
Common throat infection holds danger for kids’ hearts - Comments (0)
Video: A sporting chance with brittle bones disease - Comments (0)
SA a ‘priority area’, says Gates Foundation - Comments (0)

EC Health Crisis

Statement: Eastern Cape responds to South African Human Rights Commission report - Comments (0)
Death, dying and silence in the Eastern Cape - Comments (0)
Access delayed is access denied at Village Clinic - Comments (0)
Holy Cross patients ‘dying for no reason’ at beleaguered hospital - Comments (0)
Documentary premiere: Dying in our homes - Comments (0)
[Updated] Documentary premiere: Dying in our homes - Comments (0)
The call unanswered: Emergency services ‘non-existent’ in E.Cape communities - Comments (0)

Emergency Medical Services

KZN teenager pushes for organ donor awareness as he waits years for a heart and lung transplant. - Comments (0)
Video: What happens to the blood you donate? - Comments (0)
Mpumalanga holds first people’s health assembly - Comments (0)
Ambulance arrives too late to save teen - Comments (0)
Statement: Eastern Cape responds to South African Human Rights Commission report - Comments (0)
Report: Access to Emergency Medical Services in the Eastern Cape - Comments (0)
Death, dying and silence in the Eastern Cape - Comments (0)

Environmental Health

Micro-plastic in the water? It’s everywhere! - Comments (0)
‘My street is a dump site’ - Comments (0)
Refinery’s ‘potent fog’ sparks health crisis - Comments (0)
Some docs blame pesticide not Zika - Comments (1)
Outbreak team dispatched to typhoid patients’ homes - Comments (0)
Nelspruit township goes weeks without water - Comments (0)
Disabled lose out in South Africa’s quest for sanitation, water - Comments (0)

Fact Sheets

Basic Qs & As on AIDS Vaccine - Comments (0)
Non – Small Cell Lung Cancer Facts - Comments (0)
Fact Sheet HPTN 035 at a Glance - Comments (0)
WHO Handbook for Journalists: Influenza Pandemic - Comments (0)
Addressing myths about Microbicide Clinical Trials - Comments (0)
Swine Flu Key Facts - Comments (0)
HIV & AIDS – The Facts - Comments (0)

Gender

Government urged to ban intersex genital mutilation - Comments (0)
VIDEO: Tech tool for rape survivors - Comments (0)
Domestic violence blamed on unemployment - Comments (0)
Shelter offers abused women second chances - Comments (0)
Helping young women retain their dignity - Comments (0)
Nurse training on contraceptives needed - Comments (0)
Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention - Comments (0)

H1N1 "Swine Flu"

H7N9: No evidence of person-to-person transmission - Comments (0)
Beating the flu blues this season - Comments (0)
DOH: Enough flu vaccines - Comments (0)
Gauteng citizens urged to vaccinate against H1N1 - Comments (0)
Health Minister shares insights on H1N1 - Comments (0)
More swine flu deaths - Comments (0)
Swine flu questions answered - Comments (0)

Health Funding

Gates Foundation to invest R1.2b to close data gap - Comments (0)
Regulate private health prices, inquiry told - Comments (0)
Health Department denies allegations of frozen posts - Comments (1)
The Big Chill: Health post freeze threatens services - Comments (0)
Report: Causes, implications and possible responses to staffing moratoria - Comments (0)
Unregulated old age homes may be on the rise - Comments (0)
Speech: Western Cape Health Provincial Budget Vote 2015/16 - Comments (0)

Health Journalism

We’re hiring – Project Manager - Comments (0)
Health-e News among Discovery Health Journalism Awards finalists - Comments (0)
Health-e News debuts new weekly TV show - Comments (0)
Tshwane citizen journalist nabs top award - Comments (0)
Interview with Sibongile Nkosi, project manager of OurHealth - Comments (0)
Presentation: Health-e’s citizen journalism programme - Comments (0)
Behaving ‘better’? The media, HIV/AIDS and stigma - Comments (0)

Health Management

Holy Cross Hospital nurses could be desperate for accommodation beginning of year 2018 - Comments (0)
Gauteng health finances in crisis - Comments (0)
Access to new TB drugs for SA - Comments (0)
New technology to aid checks on patients taking TB meds - Comments (0)
How one man’s spinach business led to a revolution - Comments (0)
Want to know how good your doctor is? - Comments (0)
Dire shortage of dentists - Comments (0)

Health-e Awards & Accomplishments

New grants for reporting on rape and health facilities - Comments (0)
Health-e journalists scoop two awards - Comments (0)
Health-e News among Discovery Health Journalism Awards finalists - Comments (0)
Health-e News debuts new weekly TV show - Comments (0)
Health-e News journalist scoops Vodacom Journalist of the Year Regional Award - Comments (0)
Tshwane citizen journalist nabs top award - Comments (0)
Health-e places 2nd in African reporting challenge - Comments (0)

Health-e Staff

We’re hiring: Join our team as a TV journalist - Comments (0)

Healthcare Inquiry

Private healthcare: The blame game - Comments (0)
Hospitals, specialists ‘overgrazing’ medical aid members - Comments (0)
Private care exposed as costly, insensitive - Comments (0)

HIV - Antiretrovirals (ARVs)

HIV positive teens struggling to adhere to ARV treatment - Comments (0)
Transport costs lead to unnecessary death - Comments (0)
Two more arrests for ARV theft at a clinic - Comments (0)
ADVANCE HIV study set to save SA billions - Comments (0)
“I failed my daughter” - Comments (0)
“Denial nearly killed me” says HIV+ woman - Comments (0)
HIV: Don’t forget the elderly - Comments (0)

HIV and AIDS

Plans on track to ease KZN health woes - Comments (0)
Take a stand on values, says new UNAIDS Ambassador - Comments (0)
Township hospice eases burden on state health sector - Comments (0)
TAC is back! - Comments (0)
No SANAC board for Criselda - Comments (0)
Quicker TB test available for HIV patients in SA - Comments (0)
Too many still dying of AIDS says MSF - Comments (0)

HIV and AIDS reporting

TB, HIV killing country’s youth - Comments (0)
Growing up HIV positive - Comments (0)
Too little being done to prevent HIV – SANAC - Comments (0)
Who, what, where, when and how? – reporting the full HIV and AIDS story - Comments (0)
‘Epstein is wrong about South Africa’s AIDS response’ - Comments (0)
AIDS Day celebrated - Comments (0)
Jo’burg increases ARV clinics - Comments (0)

HIV Prevention

KZN traditional healers trained to test and counsel HIV and TB patients - Comments (0)
Blessers: A short cut to a short life - Comments (0)
Actor to be circumcised – along with 2000 others - Comments (0)
DIY test for HIV comes to a pharmacy near you - Comments (0)
Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention - Comments (0)
Beating denial: Learning to live with HIV - Comments (0)
HIV: Don’t forget the elderly - Comments (0)

HIV Treatment

How small mistakes can lead to death - Comments (0)
Miracle HIV cure man visits SA - Comments (0)
Mental health, HIV and pill-taking - Comments (0)
Lesson from Mabele’s death: Keep taking your ARVs - Comments (0)
Pills, prevention and politicking: the unfinished business of HIV - Comments (0)
A lifetime of swallowing pills - Comments (0)
SA’s new HIV snag: Patients on ART think they’re cured - Comments (0)

Human Resources

SA Health Review 2015: Nursing in crisis - Comments (2)
Council refuses to register plastic surgeon after 8 years of free service - Comments (3)
Medical students cautioned as they head to Cuba - Comments (0)
NHI: Poor conditions scare GPs away - Comments (0)
Free State protest for community health workers - Comments (0)
‘Rural-proofing’ policy launched - Comments (3)
Judgement: Constitutional Court sets certificate of need legislation aside - Comments (0)

LGBTI

Killed for being gay - Comments (0)
Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention - Comments (0)
Transgender may be removed as mental disorder - Comments (0)
Code red: AIDS activists march for treatment for all - Comments (0)
AIDS2016: Coming out – twice - Comments (0)
Gay-friendly clinic launched in Ermelo - Comments (0)
Community project leaves a legacy of love - Comments (0)

Life in Lusikisiki

Weighing up circumcision options - Comments (0)
Young girl’s dream interrupted - Comments (0)
“Stop & go” HIV treatment sabotage - Comments (0)

Malaria

Concern as patients refuse to take malaria meds - Comments (0)
Malaria count up to 2000 since April - Comments (0)
AIDS still extracting a deadly price, but SA is making progress - Comments (0)
Cowboys and catheters - Comments (0)
Malaria is not someone else’s problem, it is everyone’s - Comments (0)
Malaria is not someone else’s problem, it is everyone’s - Comments (0)
World Malaria Day: Gold speeds up malaria diagnosis - Comments (0)

Male Circumcision

Video: A young man’s experience of “the snip” - Comments (0)
South Africa performs world’s first successful penis transplant - Comments (1)
Report: South African Health Review 2013-14 - Comments (0)
A mother’s take on medical male circumcision - Comments (0)
Circumcision gets mobile in W Cape - Comments (0)
Government to promote infant male circumcision - Comments (3)
Botched circumcision fears prompt men to opt for clinics - Comments (0)

Maternal health

Beating denial: Learning to live with HIV - Comments (0)
SMS service helps nurses help mothers - Comments (0)
Moms with HIV set to get connected - Comments (1)
Mission impossible? Replacing abuse with empathy - Comments (0)
Invest in teen girls and protect them from violence - Comments (0)
Mpumalanga investigates case of negligence - Comments (1)
When a child gives birth, who has failed her? - Comments (0)

Medicines

Essential medicines shortage hit Gauteng - Comments (0)
Big Pharma in trouble for high prices - Comments (0)
Superbugs baffle many South Africans - Comments (0)
Diabetes and inequality: Most Africans undiagnosed - Comments (0)
Global plan to fight superbugs - Comments (0)
Set limit on antibiotic use, say experts - Comments (0)
Search for AIDS cure to be intensified - Comments (0)

Men's Health

Actor to be circumcised – along with 2000 others - Comments (0)
DIY test for HIV comes to a pharmacy near you - Comments (0)
Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention - Comments (0)
‘No time’ for healthy food - Comments (0)
The deadly consequences of obesity - Comments (0)
Erectile dysfunction not just for those ‘silver foxes’ - Comments (0)
Added benefits to ‘the snip’ - Comments (0)

menshealth

HIV testing Campaigns are still missing the men - Comments (0)

Mental Health

Learn from Esidimeni: Invest in community mental health - Comments (0)
Psychiatric patients at Joburg Hospital can’t wash - Comments (0)
Mahlangu denies culpability but many want blood - Comments (0)
Esidimeni: This must NEVER happen again - Comments (0)
Disabled man denied education and healthcare - Comments (0)
HIV won’t take away my smile - Comments (0)
Dead patients’ families want answers - Comments (0)

Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)

Getting to zero preventable child deaths is possible - Comments (0)
‘AIDS changed everything’ - Comments (0)
SA a ‘priority area’, says Gates Foundation - Comments (0)
WHO ‘cannot continue as is’ - Comments (0)
SA doctor charts new course for WHO in Africa - Comments (0)
Motsoaledi: Maternal, child focus remains post-MDGs - Comments (0)
Huge family planning drive to cut teen pregnancies - Comments (0)

Multimedia

VIDEO: Journalism for Change - Comments (0)
‘Food apartheid’ is stoking violence - Comments (0)
VIDEO: A hungry, violent South Africa - Comments (0)
WATCH: Fighting stigma on World Aids Day - Comments (0)
VIDEO: Drowning in Sugar - Comments (0)
VIDEO: How pregnancy, poverty and obesity collide - Comments (0)
VIDEO: Tech tool for rape survivors - Comments (0)

Municipal Elections

The politics of dry taps and broken toilets - Comments (0)
Residents target councillor who ‘does nothing’ - Comments (0)

National Health Insurance (NHI)

No more tax breaks for medical aid members? - Comments (0)
NHI: more pragmatism and less ideology - Comments (0)
National Health Insurance: Bring in the specialists - Comments (0)
Public Consultation: National Health Insurance White Paper - Comments (1)
[Updated] National Health Insurance chance to improve quality - Comments (0)
White paper: National Health Insurance for South Africa - Comments (0)
White Paper fuzzy on how to get private doctors’ buy-in - Comments (0)

News

Hopes for closure ahead of Komape verdict - Comments (0)
Medicines stockout crisis in North West - Comments (0)
Hospital patients abandoned during strike - Comments (0)
Quality of food, not just quantity important for Africa - Comments (0)
Malpractice suits undermining SA health system - Comments (0)
Angry contractors leave a school without toilets - Comments (0)
Children face hunger as thieves target school feeding programmes - Comments (0)

Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

Ramaphosa’s morning exercise: A ‘powerful’ message for South Africans - Comments (0)
Horrifying cycle of amputations - Comments (0)
Non-communicable diseases a threat to the health system - Comments (0)
A lifetime of swallowing pills - Comments (0)
VIDEO: A balanced diet in an unequal society - Comments (0)
Diabetes deaths echo AIDS epidemic - Comments (0)
Sugar tax to take the fizz out of sodas - Comments (0)

Nursing

Dead psychiatric patient was ‘well’ before being moved - Comments (0)
SMS service helps nurses help mothers - Comments (0)
May celebrations honour nurses with heart - Comments (0)
Karate-fighting nurse takes fitness out of the ring, into hospital - Comments (0)
Douglas clinic gets new nurses following shortage - Comments (0)
Nurses making a difference: Breipaal Clinic - Comments (0)
Limpopo woman takes nursing home - Comments (0)

Nutrition

‘Food apartheid’ is stoking violence - Comments (0)
‘Hungry people are angry people’ - Comments (0)
VIDEO: A balanced diet in an unequal society - Comments (0)
Free State hospital wins best vegetable garden award - Comments (0)
Getting to the heart of heartburn - Comments (0)
Video: Is it time to cut out sugary drinks? - Comments (0)
Diabetes and inequality: Most Africans undiagnosed - Comments (0)

Obesity

VIDEO: A balanced diet in an unequal society - Comments (0)
Sugar tax: Tow truck drivers’ jobs not the focus of road safety! - Comments (0)
Sugar tax: too weak to be healthy? - Comments (0)
Fight to beat diabetes and early death - Comments (0)
Bad diet complicates obese granny’s health - Comments (0)
Sugar tax debate reaches parliament - Comments (0)
Coke faces deception case - Comments (0)

Occupational Health

The vet and the wildebeest - Comments (0)
Miners win right to pursue class action case - Comments (0)
Cashier claims company falls foul of workplace rules - Comments (0)
Compensation delay opens door to exploitation - Comments (0)
Gold mines face class action case - Comments (0)
Civil society groups win admission into landmark silicosis case - Comments (0)
Hundreds picket outside High Court as silicosis matter heard - Comments (0)

Opinion & Commentary

Restricting junk food ads: Censorship or health protection? - Comments (0)
Health for all should be non-negotiable - Comments (0)
DIY test for HIV comes to a pharmacy near you - Comments (0)
Cancer: It’s all about the price tag - Comments (0)
National Health Insurance: Bring in the specialists - Comments (0)
South Africa’s rural cancer conundrum - Comments (2)
Opinion: Psychologists playing a defensive game - Comments (1)

OurHealth

Angry contractors leave a school without toilets - Comments (0)
Municipality fails to address poor sanitation - Comments (0)
Diepsloot kids get food boost - Comments (0)
Welfare system fails rural orphans - Comments (0)
Potchefstroom Hospital’s filing disaster - Comments (0)
Consumers react to new sugary drinks tax - Comments (0)
Spare your babies from salt – and hypertension - Comments (0)

Palliative Care

Video: ‘You have to die with dignity’ - Comments (0)
A practical guide to preparing to die - Comments (0)
Doctors condemn assisted suicide - Comments (0)

Pharmaceutical Drugs

Superbugs baffle many South Africans - Comments (0)
Much shorter TB treatment offers hope - Comments (0)
Patient incorrectly prescribed HIV medication - Comments (0)
New HIV pill slated for privileged few? - Comments (1)
Quarter of surveyed health facilities report stock outs - Comments (0)
Activists picket UN meeting for access to medicines - Comments (0)
Call for contributions to the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Access to Medicines - Comments (0)

Policy and Legislation

Superbugs baffle many South Africans - Comments (0)
Much shorter TB treatment offers hope - Comments (0)
Super-size South Africa: the role of the supermarket - Comments (0)
Sugar tax “pro poor” says health expert - Comments (0)
Report: South African Health Review 2016 - Comments (0)
Reprieve expected for dental assistants - Comments (0)
Call for contributions to the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Access to Medicines - Comments (0)

Press Release

Cancer: It’s all about the price tag - Comments (0)
2015 Rural Awards acknowledge achievements in rural health - Comments (0)
Take part SA’s first Health of the Nation Survey - Comments (0)
UNAIDS, AIDS community heartbroken at Nelson Mandela’s passing - Comments (0)
Hypertension affects all South Africans, not just whites - Comments (1)
Emergency Medical Services a problem in Mgungundlovu, Public Protector told - Comments (0)
SA reduces HIV infection in children by 63% - Comments (0)

Private Healthcare

Your genes could predict your future, but would you want them to? - Comments (0)
Private healthcare is ‘wasteful’ - Comments (0)

Private Healthcare Inquiry

Private care exposed as costly, insensitive - Comments (0)
Medical schemes exploit patients’ ignorance - Comments (0)

Pseudoscience

Limpopo gogos swipe condoms for aches - Comments (0)
Separating cancer fact from fiction - Comments (2)
The price of denial - Comments (0)
Taking on the Quacks - Comments (0)

Public Health & Health Systems

Potchefstroom Hospital’s filing disaster - Comments (0)
Meet Bernadette Maguire – Health-e’s new TV producer - Comments (0)
R500 million irregular security contracts extended at Gauteng hospitals - Comments (0)
Welcome relief for Elephantiasis mother - Comments (0)
Patient distressed by 6-year wait for surgery - Comments (0)
PillDrop: Solution to chronic medication challenges - Comments (0)
DIY test for HIV comes to a pharmacy near you - Comments (0)

Reports

SSP Third Annual Stock out Survey - Comments (2)
PACSA: Basic food basket over R1900 - Comments (0)
Report: Community Service for Health Professionals Summit - Comments (0)
UNAIDS Global update 2016 - Comments (0)
Report: Advancing HIV Justice 2 - Comments (0)
App: HIV Clinical Mentor - Comments (0)
Report: Saving Mothers 2011 – 2013 - Comments (0)

Reproductive Health

Nurse training on contraceptives needed - Comments (0)
Breastfeeding’s protections last into old age - Comments (0)
SMS service helps nurses help mothers - Comments (0)
Moms with HIV set to get connected - Comments (1)
Placing pleasure at the heart of safe sex - Comments (0)
Quarter of pregnancies globally may end in abortion - Comments (0)
R9 billion needed to close contraception gap - Comments (0)

Rift Valley Fever

Rift Valley Fever latest - Comments (0)
Rift Valley Fever – first human death in Western Cape - Comments (0)
Two more people die from RVF - Comments (0)
RVF not a risk to World Cup – NICD - Comments (0)
Outbreak response teams working to contain RVF ahead of World Cup - Comments (0)
Rift Valley Fever spreads to the Western Cape - Comments (0)
52 people with RVF, 2 deaths - Comments (0)

Rural Health

Limpopo moves to curb malaria - Comments (0)
400 toilets for rural villagers in Limpopo - Comments (0)
‘Prophet’ accused of rape gets bail - Comments (0)
Liquor board fights alcohol abuse in rural Eastern Cape - Comments (0)
Rural grannies are fighting old age through football - Comments (0)
Limpopo woman gives birth on the street - Comments (0)
Empty promises leave residents thirsty - Comments (0)

Rural Reflections

Cultural beliefs discourage organ donors - Comments (0)
Top honours for visually impaired matrics - Comments (0)
Medicine, morality on South Africa’s drug routes - Comments (0)
South Africa’s rural cancer conundrum - Comments (2)
When a child gives birth, who has failed her? - Comments (0)
Rural Reflections: There is a problem - Comments (0)
Is there an orthopod in the house? - Comments (0)

Science; Research & Innovations

The vet and the wildebeest - Comments (0)
Much shorter TB treatment offers hope - Comments (0)
Video: What happens to the blood you donate? - Comments (0)
Register for MSF’s Scientific Day - Comments (0)
Register for MSF’s Scientific Day - Comments (0)
Register for MSF’s Scientific Day - Comments (0)
Online database: The National Health Research Database - Comments (0)

Sexual Violence

VIDEO: Tech tool for rape survivors - Comments (0)
‘Prophet’ accused of rape gets bail - Comments (0)
‘Self defence is not about fighting back’ - Comments (0)
Shameful content of a child rape kit - Comments (0)
Pensioner in court for child’s rape - Comments (0)
Man to be charged with rape of cancer patient - Comments (0)
Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention - Comments (0)

Sexuality

Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention - Comments (0)
Placing pleasure at the heart of safe sex - Comments (0)
R9 billion needed to close contraception gap - Comments (0)
Erectile dysfunction not just for those ‘silver foxes’ - Comments (0)
Are we obsessed with tighter vaginas? - Comments (0)
Teen’s suicide highlights risk for LGBTI youth - Comments (0)
Young East Rand lesbians wear the pants - Comments (0)

Social Services

Welfare system fails rural orphans - Comments (0)
Girl forced to quit school over birth certificate - Comments (0)
Happy Christmas for a centre that faced closure - Comments (0)
SA kids need family support to avoid drugs - Comments (0)
Dead psychiatric patient was ‘well’ before being moved - Comments (0)
System fails women desperate for safety - Comments (1)
Gogo’s deathbed wish fails - Comments (1)

Statistics

Untreated depression bad for business - Comments (0)
Report: Estimating the size of the sex worker population in South Africa - Comments (0)
Study estimates 153,000 sex workers active in South Africa - Comments (0)
Report: South African Health Review 2013-14 - Comments (0)
Report: District Health Barometer 2013-14 - Comments (0)
AIDS still extracting a deadly price, but SA is making progress - Comments (0)
Report: Global Fund targets in South African prisons - Comments (0)

Stockouts

Essential medicines shortage hit Gauteng - Comments (0)
No time for emergencies - Comments (0)

Survivor Stories

ILLUSTRATION: Closed Doors for Rape Survivors - Comments (0)
System fails women desperate for safety - Comments (1)
Booklet: The Road to Recovery – You and Rape - Comments (0)
My rape was a joke to my friends - Comments (0)
Why do men rape? Gender-based violence documentary premiere - Comments (0)
Free State university cancer survivor gives back - Comments (0)
Trying to prevent more Thabo Mwales - Comments (0)

Traditional Medicine

Draft for comment: Regulations on Traditional Health Practioners - Comments (0)
[Updated] Healer’s bogus ‘HIV cure’ bashed - Comments (1)
Traditional health practitioners should be regulated, summit says - Comments (0)
Herbalists crucial link to health services - Comments (0)
Fears drive traditional medicine use during pregnancy - Comments (0)
Traditional medicine almost kills baby - Comments (0)
MCC rubbishes Ubhejane claims - Comments (0)

Tuberculosis (TB)

New pain-free test for TB in kids - Comments (0)
Taking the pain out of kiddie TB tests - Comments (0)
Northern Cape records shocking TB stats - Comments (0)
Township TB drive highlights disease dangers - Comments (0)
Drug-resistant TB: The edge of death - Comments (0)
When adolescence and TB meet - Comments (0)
Potential cure for deadliest form of TB - Comments (0)

Vaccines

Emergency vaccination to curb measles outbreak in Gauteng - Comments (0)
Polio-free world possible – Gates CEO - Comments (0)
BCG vaccine shortage ‘not as grave’ - Comments (0)
Drug stock outs hit more than one in 10 health facilities - Comments (0)
Vaccinations could save 20 million children in five years - Comments (0)
Pneumococcal vaccine cuts hospitalisations by 70 percent - Comments (2)
Report: The Right Shot – Bringing down barriers to affordable and adapted vaccines - Comments (0)

Video

VIDEO: Tech tool for rape survivors - Comments (0)
VIDEO: A balanced diet in an unequal society - Comments (0)
No time for emergencies - Comments (0)
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Violence

Domestic violence blamed on unemployment - Comments (0)
Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention - Comments (0)
System fails women desperate for safety - Comments (1)
Making taxis safe for women - Comments (0)
Mbombela protests stand between patients, care - Comments (0)
Six steps to take if you have been raped - Comments (0)
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Water & Sanitation

Angry contractors leave a school without toilets - Comments (0)
Municipality fails to address poor sanitation - Comments (0)
400 toilets for rural villagers in Limpopo - Comments (0)
Water throttling for municipalities that owe Rand Water - Comments (0)
Villagers go thirsty despite promises of help - Comments (0)
Water project to benefit thirsty villagers - Comments (0)
Empty promises leave residents thirsty - Comments (0)

Women's Health

How hunger erodes mental health - Comments (0)
VIDEO: Tech tool for rape survivors - Comments (0)
“My family cycle ends with me” - Comments (0)
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Fake doctor arrested - Comments (0)
Gym-free journey to fitness - Comments (0)
Helping young women retain their dignity - Comments (0)

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