Health

Quack claims about oxygen treatment are dangerous

Charlatans exploit patients for financial gain, say doctors

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Science | 15 March 2019

Children are dying in pain because they cannot get the medicines they need

Government has not implemented its palliative care plan

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Opinion | 11 March 2019

Community health workers blockade Gauteng Department of Health

Workers have not given up the fight to be made permanent employees

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News | 6 March 2019

Picket against bad treatment at Lusikisiki clinic

The TAC held a protest at Xurana clinic which they say is losing patients in “droves”

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Brief | 1 March 2019

Gauteng community health care workers reject contracts

R3,500 a month is not enough, says workers’ forum

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News | 22 February 2019

Stellenbosch builds world class institute to investigate deadly diseases

R1 billion Biomedical Research Institute will be ready by 2022

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Science | 15 February 2019

Port Elizabeth clinic closed by crime

Councillor says 24-hour security needed at clinics

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Brief | 12 February 2019

City fails to publish water quality tests for two years

Public cannot assess effects of sewage disposal in sea

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News | 11 February 2019

Stockout of testosterone injections used by transgender people

Pfizer expects to have testosterone injections in the country by the end of month

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News | 7 February 2019

How a Zimbabwean hospital treated my dying mother

Shutdown hit hospitals hard

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News | 30 January 2019

Mortuary workers return to work after arrests

“We are declaring a big war with the Department of Health,” says union

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News | 12 December 2018

“Tell us how you get high”

World’s largest drug survey wants to hear from drug users across the planet

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News | 11 December 2018

Strikers barricade mortuary

Workers’ issues remain unresolved at Fort Napier Medico Legal Mortuary in Pietermaritzburg

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News | 7 December 2018

People robbed of ARVs because of whoonga myth

No ingredients in ARVs help people get high

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News | 7 December 2018

Children with HIV not prioritised by pharmaceutical industry

HIV positive babies and children are receiving suboptimal treatment putting them at risk for resistance and treatment failure according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

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News | 3 December 2018

Child rape survivors left without counselling

Mental health care a “lottery” for survivors of sexual violence

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News | 28 November 2018