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Hepatitis C : New hope as treatment prices set to drop

Health Systems, News

The cost of treating Hepatitis C In South Africa will drastically decrease in the coming months. Currently, a 3-month treatment course is R19,984 per patient. The National Health Department says the price cut will make treatment much more affordable. Health…

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
June 1, 2023

Frontline healthcare workers have been the hardest hit during the COVID-19 wave.

Healthcare workers: “We are humans”

Mental Health, News

By Hannah Zhihan Jiang Healthcare workers (HCWs) say targeted programmes to destigmatise mental illnesses and support mental health among HCWs after the COVID-19 pandemic is needed more than ever. They stress the need to debunk the stereotype that HCWs are…

Hannah Zhihan Jiang
May 15, 2023

International Nurses Day: Little to celebrate

Health Systems, News

This International Nurses Day is bittersweet for many nurses working in South Africa’s public healthcare system. With the devastating shortage of nurses, ongoing wage battles, unsafe working conditions, and lack of resources, nurses say there is very little to celebrate.…

Lilita Gcwabe
May 12, 2023

Free State: Service delivery protests shut down clinic

News, Our Health

The local clinic in Henneman in the Matjhabeng Municipality in the Free State has been closed for the last seven days since service delivery protests erupted in the area. Residents of Phomolong started protesting exactly one week ago over the…

Molefi Sompane
April 18, 2023

Mpumalanga MEC for Health forced to take action as chronic medication supplies run dry.

Mpumalanga Health MEC steps in as chronic meds run dry

Health, Health Systems, News

The Mpumalanga Health MEC, Sasekani Manzini, has been forced to take action as several healthcare facilities in the province face chronic medication shortages.

Charlotte Mnguni
August 5, 2021

EC health department’s dirty washing hung out to dry in damning report

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The Eastern Cape health department has been plagued by a series of controversies as the province prepares to deal with the looming COVID-19 third wave. Matters have since worsened with the release of a damning report which has left officials scurrying around in an attempt to save face.

Max Matavire
June 29, 2021

Contingency plans for health department strike

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The country's medicine regulatory body has developed "contingency plans" to ensure that it's "lifesaving" mandate is not disrupted amid continued protest action at the National Department of Health's (NDoH) headquarters.

Amy Green
August 16, 2018

Birth defects fears prompt warnings about new ARV

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Within a week the "revolutionary" new HIV drug dolutegravir has gone from panacea to pariah. Recent data from a Botswana study linking the drug to birth defects has seen the highest international health bodies issuing public warnings.

Amy Green
May 28, 2018

Parents fear listeriosis from meat products bought around schools

News, Our Health

Parents of children in Limpopo, where the source of the listeriosis outbreak was identified, are concerned about their children eating processed meats products when they can't supervise them while at school.

Amy Green and Amy Green
March 7, 2018

Youth struggle to access reproductive care

Contraception, HIV and control over black women’s bodies

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The apartheid-era practices of injecting women with a controversial contraceptive called Depo Provera without their consent, is persisting today, according to multiple reports from activists, health workers and women who use public health. HEALTH-E’s Amy Green reports.

Amy Green
February 12, 2018

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