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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)
- Video: SA children suffer severe tooth decay - Comments (0)
- Documentary Premiere: Dignity Denied - Comments (0)
- New Health-e documentary focuses on mental health - Comments (2)
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)
- [Updated] Activists canvass Johannesburg ahead of anti-xenophobia march - Comments (1)
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)
- VIDEO: A balanced diet in an unequal society - Comments (0)
- Fake doctor arrested - Comments (0)
- Gym-free journey to fitness - Comments (0)
- Helping young women retain their dignity - Comments (0)