Health
Paarl shop bans breastfeeding
“No eating, drinking, smoking and breastfeeding in the shop please” - window sign
By Benita Enoch
News | 4 February 2016
Detainees go to court over conditions in Pollsmoor
65 people held in a cell meant for 25
News | 3 February 2016
HIV-positive prisoner denied antiretroviral treatment
Pollsmoor detainees speak out
News | 3 February 2016
Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof
It's because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths
Opinion | 1 February 2016
How a rural hospital has become a model of good care
If all hospitals were like this we could implement National Health Insurance tomorrow
By Jack Lewis
Opinion | 28 January 2016
NHI white paper: the good and the bad
South Africa is one of the most unequal nations in the world, and despite having the highest GDP on the continent, it boasts poor health indicators and faces a high burden of disease, both communicable like HIV and non-communicable like diabetes; high rates of violence and injury and mortality.
Kathryn Stinson and the Writing Group for the People’s Health Movement South Africa
Opinion | 18 December 2015
Patients turned away from Mfuleni clinic
Mfuleni community clinic turned away some patients on Friday as staff went to an end-of-the-year function.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 15 December 2015
Cough up money for TB, demand protesters
“Cough up money” for tuberculosis (TB) was the main demand of over a thousand people who marched from Keizersgracht Street to the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) this afternoon. The CTICC is hosting the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health, the planet's main annual TB meeting.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 3 December 2015
Khayelitsha kids have fun while learning how to stay healthy
Young children and teenagers packed Khayelitsha's Mew Way Hall to the brim today. They were entertained by the Zip Zap Circus and the Jazzart Dance Theatre. But besides having a day of fun, they also learnt about HIV and how to stay healthy, whether or not infected by the virus.
GroundUp Staff and Bernard ChiguvarePhotos by Masixole Feni
News | 1 December 2015