Health-e (Cape Town)

October 22

Africa: WHO Reports Back On TB [press release]

“In the space of 17 years, 51 million people have been successfully treated and cared for according to WHO recommendations. Without that treatment, 20 million people would... Read more »
South Africa: Ourhealth - TB Patient in the Dark About Treatment

Zolile Mabena is in a difficult situation – a severe TB-infection has left him with just one functioning lung. He is too weak to work or even take care of himself, and his... Read more »
Southern Africa: Ourhealth - Community Stands Together Against HIV

Community members from the Vhembe district in Limpopo this week held a gathering at the Matavhela Clinic to celebrate the success the community has achieved in the fight against... Read more »
South Africa: Township Toilets Sickening

Residents of the Selahliwe informal settlement have had to deal with poor sanitation and disgraceful toilet facilities for years. Read more »

South Africa: Ourhealth - Book Illustrates How Mental Illness Can Be Overcome

Mashudu Maemu and Oscar Magedana wrote an inspirational book to help discourage discrimination against mental illness. Read more »

Africa: WHO Launches the Global Tuberculosis Report 2012 [press release]

An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report... Read more »
South Africa: Patients Suffer As EC Hospital Workers' Strike

A wildcat strike has left patients at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and surrounding clinics and hospitals without life-saving medicines and treatment for the last two weeks.... Read more »
South Africa: Great Disparity in Lives of SA Children

South African children have equal rights under the Constitution, but the worlds into which they are born and their opportunities in life are very unequal. This was the message... Read more »

South Africa: Counsellors Demoralised by Working Conditions

HIV counsellors working in the districts of Mabopane, Soshanguve, Winterveldt and Garankuwa are complaining that their grievances with the Gauteng Department of Health are not... Read more »
South Africa: Patients Injured in Hospital Bus Accident

About 40 patients were injured when the bus transporting them to the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha crashed last month and according to witness reports, rolled three... Read more »
South Africa: 'Exercise Keeps Me Young'

October is International Elderly People's Month and OurHealth visited with the energetic, active and healthy elders of Mphohadi Luncheon Club at Mphohadi Clinic in Bethlehem. Read more »
South Africa: Surviving Arthritis

About seven million South Africans suffer from some form of arthritis, with roughly three percent having a systemic and inflammatory form which affects more than the joints. This... Read more »
South Africa: Gauteng Discusses Future of Lay Counsellors

The Gauteng Health Department held talks with lay HIV counsellors and other community health workers this week to discuss options of managing and incorporating them into the health... Read more »
South Africa: Discharged Patients Have to Stay in Hospital

Patients were stranded at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital for nearly three weeks after being discharged but no hospital transport available to take them back home to... Read more »

South Africa: Ourhealth - Organisation Uplifts Mpophomeni Community

Friends for Life is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that not only gives support, but also hope, to the community of Mpophomeni. Read more »

South Africa: Only 1 in 3 Childhood Cancers Diagnosed, Treated

Hilowhe Mocow knows every farm animal and cartoon character adorning the corridors and wards of the Tygerberg Children's Hospital. Read more »
Africa: Grand Challenges Canada Tackles Mental Health in the Developing World [press release]

Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, announced a landmark $19.4 million in support of 15 innovative, pioneering projects designed to improve mental... Read more »
South Africa: BMJ - the Imprisonment of Cyril Karabus Is Deplorable

Today a 77 year old paediatric oncologist sits in prison in Abu Dhabi while he waits to be retried for an offence he was originally convicted of more than 10 years ago, in... Read more »

South Africa: Gauteng Head of Health Is Leaving, After All

Following a Health-e report last week and after initially denying it, Dr Nomonde Xundu, the head of health in Gauteng, has now confirmed that she is leaving the distressed unit... Read more »
South Africa: Ourhealth - Management to Blame for Bara Mess

Poor management is responsible for the pitiable services at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, Mark Heywood told members at recent meeting of the Treatment Action Campaign... Read more »
South Africa: Ourhealth - Hospital Fails Community

The management of Madwaleni Hospital on Monday refused to report back to the community after serious grievances were laid against the hospital. Read more »

South Africa: Ourhealth - New Technology Can Improve Health Services

New technology has shown a great improvement in service delivery at certain branches of the non-governmental organisation, Right to Care. Yet patients in the Free State still face... Read more »

South Africa: Circumcision Beneficial for Women Too

The benefits of medical male circumcision have been proven to also extend to women. It has been shown that female partners of men who are circumcised have a less risk of... Read more »
South Africa: Help for the Bush People - Living With Aids

Where government services fail to reach, Tshwane University of Technology students do what they can to help a forgotten poverty-stricken community just outside of Pretoria with... Read more »

South Africa: Motsoaledi Shares His Plans

Dr Aaron Motsoaledi rubs his forehead and repositions himself in his chair, leaning forward as if to make sure the point come across clearly: "I will say it upfront. There is no... Read more »

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