Health

This simple public health intervention is cheap and saves lives

World Hand Hygiene Day focuses on promoting handwashing

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News | 6 May 2016

Increasing access to mental health counselling in Khayelitsha

Banetsi Mphunga was all smiles when he removed the huge white cloth to unveil his revamped mobile clinic

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News | 6 May 2016

New, better HIV drugs can save billions of rand

But South Africa needs to be proactive to take advantage of new medicines

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News | 5 May 2016

Mother says she has no choice but to give up her daughter

After struggling for 13 years with two severely disabled children, she can no longer cope

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News | 5 May 2016

“I want them to feel my love before I die”

Khayelitsha mother longs to bring her disabled daughters home

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News | 26 April 2016

Mother of poisoned farmworker demands answers

18-year-old died after drinking insecticide

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News | 15 April 2016

“If they understood, they would have stopped drinking”

Pregnant women warn others about dangers of alcohol

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News | 14 April 2016

New organisation to take over Delft health worker services

Changover after crime rate prompts Afrika Tikkun to leave

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Brief | 12 April 2016

Students at nursing college protest exclusions

Dispute over exclusion of seven students

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Brief | 11 April 2016

Evidence of plague found in rat in Tembisa rubbish dump

No immediate threat to health, say scientists

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News | 5 April 2016

High level of foetal alcohol syndrome found in Saldanha Bay

Six percent of children born with disorder, study finds

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News | 4 April 2016

Masiphumelele’s clinic unable to serve township’s needs

Calls for facility's service and space to be expanded, but officials say this will be difficult

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News | 4 April 2016

Medicine offers hope for heroin users in Mitchells Plain

But government unlikely to make it widely available

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Feature | 24 March 2016

TB kills 1.5 million a year - here’s how to stop it

We must increase access to medicines, diagnostics and vaccines

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Opinion | 22 March 2016

Medicine patent system must be fixed

Current system is not developing enough of the drugs we need

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Opinion | 18 March 2016

Antiretrovirals for all sex workers

We are “affirming the right of all South Africans to life, to dignity, to health" - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa

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Brief | 17 March 2016