Health-e (Cape Town)

November 20

Africa: Diabetes - Ticking Time Bomb

It is estimated that more than 500 million people worldwide will have diabetes in 20 years’ time. As World Diabetes day was commemorated last week, people have been warned to... Read more »
South Africa: Gauteng Delay Tactics On Medicines Depot Findings

The Gauteng Health Department is delaying the announcement of findings of a forensic investigation into suspected financial irregularities at the provincial medicines supplies... Read more »

South Africa: Partnership Shows New Ways to Support Health

The launch of the Joint Public Health Enhancement Fund last week is a rare occurrence in the history of South Africa’s health care. The Fund illustrates that in a climate of... Read more »

South Africa: Girl Dies While Nurses Try to Find a Bed

A 5-year-old girls died in the casualty ward at Phekolong Hospital in Bethlehem this week while nurses scurried around trying to find a bed for her in the casualty ward. Read more »
South Africa: Qaukeni District Clinics and Hospitals in Distress

Twelve clinic and two hospitals that fall under the Qaukeni local district are continuing to experience critical drug shortages and stock outs. Read more »
South Africa: Long Walk to Health [opinion]

This week Mtshana Mvlisi spoke to Nonyameko Ntiyo about her long and at times difficult journey back to health. Read more »
South Africa: Desperate Gauteng Health Suppliers Beg for Help

Medical device companies in Gauteng have made a desperate appeal to Performance Monitoring Minister Collins Chabane “to save us from the Gauteng health department”. Read more »
South Africa: HIV - Search for Safe Contraception Receives a Boost

Professor Janet Hapgood of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Cape Town has received US$100 000 to pursue research into the best contraception for... Read more »
South Africa: Water Restored to Matavhela and Mufulwi

Villagers from Matavhela and Mufulwi have had their tap water supplies restored after alerting OurHealth that they had to rely on unsafe rain and river water. Read more »

South Africa: Mental Health Patient Given Home

Vhembe - The Mphephu Royal Council and Masana Private FET College celebrated Mental Health Day in style by donating a house to a mental health patient. Read more »
South Africa: World Stroke Day Celebration in Tshwane

OurHealth: Tshwane – The provincial Department of Health in Gauteng recently celebrated World Stroke Day at the KT Motubatse Centre in the township of Soshanguve, in Tshwane,... Read more »
South Africa: Dr-TB - Urgent Need to Respond to Growing Global Crisis

Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of... Read more »

South Africa: Tutu TB Research Centre Wins Major Award

The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) at the University of Stellenbosch will today receive an international award for its ground-breaking research into childhood TB and for its... Read more »
South Africa: Fighting the Scourge of Non-Communicable Diseases

About 500 000 people are expected to benefit from a US$30million global project aimed at addressing non-communicable diseases. The project will be rolled out in four countries,... Read more »
South Africa: Challenges of Breast-Feeding

Despite knowing the benefits of exclusive breast-feeding in the first six months of a child’s life, many new mothers often encounter challenges that prevent them from... Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Should Prioritise Immunisation

African leaders were criticised for failing to prioritise immunisation with life-saving vaccines for children under five years of age to prevent deadly infectious diseases. Read more »

South Africa: Private Sector Aid for Public Health [opinion]

A unique partnership launched this week between the private health sector and the national Health Department will result in more student doctors being trained, the strengthening of... Read more »

Africa: Good News On Infant Malaria Vaccine [press release]

Results from a pivotal, large-scale Phase III trial, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate can help protect African... Read more »
South Africa: Thugs Target Those Crossing Zim Border

Three out of 10 Zimbabwean women are gang-raped when they try to cross the border through the Limpopo River to South Africa, according to a church leader who runs two shelters in... Read more »
South Africa: Vhembe Clinic Drug Supplies Run Dry

Two local clinics are experiencing critical drug shortages, with both reporting that they are at times only able to dispense Panado. Read more »
South Africa: Private Sector Funding to Train Doctors

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has established a fund in partnership with 23 of South Africa's largest private medical aid, pharmacy, drug and hospital companies in an effort... Read more »

South Africa: Academy to Improve the Health Service

From now on, new hospital CEOs and other high-level managers responsible for health care delivery in South Africa will undergo specialised training in health care management.... Read more »
South Africa: Academy to Train Health Managers

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi yesterday (TUES) launched a Health Academy, headed by a group of top health experts, designed to improve the management capacity in the public... Read more »
South Africa: Winterveldt HIV Projects Face Closure

Winterveldt – A number of non-governmental organisations who were in the past supported by the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS (Pepfar) are closing at... Read more »
South Africa: TAC and Chiefs Join Forces to Save Madwaleni

Madwaleni – Local chiefs joined forces with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in a drive to remedy the desperate situation at Madwaleni hospital where a lone doctor is... Read more »

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