Health-e (Cape Town)

October 5

South Africa: Traditional Healer Arrested in Connection With Rape

A traditional healer was arrested for allegedly raping of one of his female patients. Read more »

South Africa: Tik Time Bomb

Each year around a thousand young women addicted to crystal methamphetamine, or tik, give birth to so-called tik babies in Cape Town. Read more »
South Africa: Gauteng Head of Health to Jump Ship?

The head of the ailing Gauteng Health Department, Dr Nomonde Xundu, is reported to have requested that she be relieved of her duties. Her move is seen as an admission of her... Read more »
South Africa: De Lille Admits Janitor Services Stink

Mayor Patricia de Lille has admitted that the City's janitorial services in informal services needed to be jacked up and her office has taken over the monitoring of this service. Read more »

South Africa: Ourhealth - Clinic Closes After DOH Fails to Pay Rent

LUSIKISIKI - Patients were greeted with locked doors at the local clinic on Monday. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the clinic was closed after the Eastern Cape Department of... Read more »

Africa: South Africa Gets Ready for HIV Vaccine Trial

A vaccine candidate which showed that it can protect against HIV infection by up to 31% when tested in Thailand three years ago will be further tested in South Africa as soon as... Read more »
South Africa: The Benefits of Family Testing

Home-based HIV testing offers families the opportunity to understand and face the virus together. This is a new phenomenon in South Africa, having first been introduced in certain... Read more »

South Africa: Top Civil Servant Battles Massive Corruption

He cuts a lone figure in the fading dusk light, clutching a laptop bag in one hand and an oversized grass basket in the other. His salt and pepper hair slightly disheveled after a... Read more »
South Africa: Medicines Council Says No to TB Drug Access

South Africa's Medicines Control Council (MCC) has confirmed that it will continue to deny compassionate access to a TB drug that for many drug resistant patients is their last... Read more »

Africa: Community Involvement Key in Hunt for HIV Vaccine - Living With Aids # 534 [opinion]

An international AIDS vaccine conference held in Boston, in America, discussed the importance of community participation in the search for a preventative AIDS vaccine. But how do... Read more »
South Africa: Hospital Crises - Litigation Looms in Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape Health and Treasury MECs have been given an ultimatum to either reply to a set of questions related to the staffing crises at Madwaleni and Livingstone hospitals,... Read more »

South Africa: Matsoso Wants to Contract PVT GPS

Health Director-General Precious Matsoso has launched a strong appeal to the private health sector to come up with good "contracting models" whereby the state could as an example... Read more »
South Africa: Young and Old Require End-of-Life Care

"Doctor, am I going to die?" It is a question no doctor enjoys answering, especially when is involves an 11-year old. Yet, this is something Dr Lindsay Farrant and her colleagues... Read more »

South Africa: Motsoaledi Urges Pvt Hospitals to Play Ball

South Africa cannot afford to shy away from the uncomfortable truth that poor regulatory control of private healthcare and weak financing was punishing the poor, Health minister Dr... Read more »
South Africa: City Janitor Rollout Stinks - SJC

A landmark daily janitorial service for communal toilets in the City's informal settlements - launched with great fanfare in May by Mayor Patricia de Lille - has come to a grinding... Read more »
Africa: Health-E Is a Finalist in $1 Million Innovation Challenge

Health-e News Service is delighted to have been selected as one of 40 finalists in the inaugural $1-million African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC). Read more »

South Africa: Taking HIV Testing to Homes - Living With Aids [opinion]

Home-based HIV testing, which enables you and your family to have an HIV test in the privacy of your own home without having to go to a health facility, is one of the newest... Read more »
South Africa: Dying With Dignity is a Human Right

"Many people think that you go to hospice to die, but hospice is not about death at all, it is about preserving the quality of life," said former Bafana Bafana captain, Lucas... Read more »
South Africa: Pregnant Mom's Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Harms Baby

Newborns that have been exposed to nicotine from mothers who smoke or who were exposed to secondhand smoke show poor physiological, sensory, motor and attention responses,... Read more »
South Africa: Medicines Council Delays Access to Lifesaving TB Drug

South Africa's drug regulatory authority is placing unreasonable hurdles in the way of desperately ill and dying patients with drug-resistant TB (DR TB), stopping them from... Read more »

South Africa: South African Wine Is Good for the Heart

South African red and white wine is good for the heart. So drink up, says scientists, it's cheap medicine. Read more »
South Africa: ARVs May Affect the Heart

New research suggests that certain antiretroviral treatment (ART) may increase a person's risk for heart disease, yet scientists believe that its benefits still far outweighs the... Read more »
South Africa: Canada Supports Efforts to Address ECD

Around 200-million children, including many in South Africa, fail to meet their full developmental potential because of the debilitating impact of poverty - contributing to a cycle... Read more »

South Africa: Nicotine Harms Sperm

Men considering fatherhood should steer away from nicotine - and not only in cigarettes, but nicotine-replacement products, such as gum or patches should also be avoided. Read more »
South Africa: Teenage Pregnancy - Girls Exchange Sex for Love

Most teenage girls in South Africa start having sex to prove their love to their boyfriends. This is according to new research presented by Neloufar Khan from the Department of... Read more »

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