Health

Kwathema residents protest for cleaner air

Residents say fertiliser manufacturing plant is harming their health

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Brief | 26 November 2018

Only one in four children lives with both parents

Child Gauge report says 65% of children live in poverty

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News | 21 November 2018

Emergency health workers demand overtime pay

Eastern Cape health department warns strike is illegal

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Brief | 6 November 2018

What HHP has taught us about mental health in the black community

Depression has for a long time been referred to as a “white disease” even though close to one in six South Africans suffer from depression or anxiety

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Opinion | 5 November 2018

NEHAWU threatens to “close” Eastern Cape

Union says provincial health department is dysfunctional

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Brief | 25 October 2018

Eastern Cape villagers must wait two months or walk miles to clinics

With only three mobile clinics to serve 93 places in Intsika Yethu, weekly visits are not possible

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Brief | 19 October 2018

Stutterheim protesters burn municipal offices and clinic over lack of jobs

“Unfortunately the clinic mistakenly burnt down but it was never the plan”

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News | 18 October 2018

Tension in Hillbrow after residents attack drug dealers

Drug dealers and users have moved one block further away from where they were

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News | 15 October 2018

Workers threaten shut down of KZN public health services

Department given 14 days to respond to grievances

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Brief | 5 October 2018

Community health workers demand higher wages

Workers have accused the provincial health department of not upholding a 2017 agreement to standardise stipends

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Brief | 5 October 2018

Activists call for improved access to safe abortions

“We have a right as women to choose what we do with our bodies without being questioned”

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News | 29 September 2018

New tuberculosis vaccine raises hopes

But one more large trial is needed, says TB activist

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Brief | 28 September 2018

Nine-year-old circumcised at school by “mistake”

Doctor and health team suspended

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News | 18 September 2018

Community healthcare workers demand full-time employment

“We do all the dirty jobs in clinics yet we are not being recognised”

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Brief | 13 September 2018

Ignorance about people with HIV still exists in 2018

“It was like I was dirty … I had no choice but to leave home”

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News | 7 September 2018

Authorities respond after residents shut down clinic

Port Elizabeth clinic is plagued by crime

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Brief | 24 August 2018