Health

Atlantis residents demand better service at Wesfleur Hospital

Health department commits to recruiting more doctors and nurses, but says problems can’t be solved only by hiring

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News | 22 September 2017

National government to rescue KZN’s collapsing health department

Minister responds in Parliament to damning report

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Parliament | 7 September 2017

Western Cape to toughen alcohol controls

It cannot be “business as usual for the liquor industry” says Medical Research Council researcher

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News | 6 September 2017

New drug plan promises shift in policy

For the first time, the plan includes input from drug users

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News | 29 August 2017

End in sight for silicosis case?

Anglo American and Gold Fields may settle with miners and their families

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Analysis | 11 August 2017

State laboratory employees march in Pietermaritzburg

Workers demand higher salaries, but essential health service is collapsing

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Brief | 1 August 2017

State mental health patients are being held in prisons

There is a shortage of hospital beds in the Eastern Cape for inmates with mental illness

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News | 27 July 2017

Rural Eastern Cape village left without clinic for months

Provincial government has no explanation why

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Brief | 25 July 2017

Gupta-owned company demands R10 million for defamation

Re-Action Consulting’s claims about Optimum were widely known and probably true

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News | 3 July 2017

Gupta-owned company blocks improved health-care in Mpumalanga

This story exemplifies how state capture affects poor people

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News | 28 June 2017

Former Aids council head criticises government plan

But Fareed Abdullah says it is not too late to improve it

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News | 17 June 2017

Aids Council responds to corruption allegations

Civil society organisations called “malicious”

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News | 15 June 2017

Sex workers demonstrate during Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech

South African National AIDS Council did not include decriminalising sex work in its HIV strategy plan

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News | 15 June 2017

Men at higher risk of not getting HIV under control

In a massive study, about 85% of patients on antiretrovirals had got the virus down to acceptable levels in their blood

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News | 15 June 2017

South Africa is making progress against its most deadly disease

Number of new cases is dropping

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News | 14 June 2017

Khayelitsha study offers hope for children with HIV who are failing treatment

Intervention helps kids to adhere to their medication

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News | 14 June 2017