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December 07, 2023
South Africa: In-Depth - What Is the Situation With Self-Managed Abortions in SA?
In a context where access to surgical abortion is limited, self-managed abortion has the potential to help women realise their right to terminate pregnancies, in privacy and from… Read more »
October 20, 2023
South Africa: Exciting Health Reforms Are Possible If We Can Move Beyond All the Political Sclerosis
It is often enlightening for us at Spotlight to ask how and why certain services differ in the ways they do between the private and public healthcare sectors. Read more »
September 27, 2023
South Africa: Many in Eastern Cape Still Denied Health Services Despite Some Improvements, Report Finds
A woman in her forties who is living with HIV says she was denied services at a public healthcare facility because she didn't have a transfer letter, resulting in her treatment… Read more »
August 30, 2023
South Africa: Mental Health Needs of GBV Survivors Are Not Being Met - What to Do?
A year or so ago, a young woman arrived at the St Anne's Homes Women's Shelter in Woodstock, Cape Town, so traumatised after a brutal sexual assault that she wept, alone, in her… Read more »
August 25, 2023
South Africa: We Are Short-Changing Women With Budget Cuts, Corruption, and Underspending in Health
It is often said that when you educate a girl; you educate a nation. The same rings true for investing in women's health, which ultimately benefits our entire country. The World… Read more »
July 06, 2023
South Africa: Concerns Over Treatment and Care for People With Schizophrenia Not Limited to Public Sector
In response to a question posed in parliament, Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla last year disclosed that at the time, South Africa had only 451 public sector psychiatrists and… Read more »
June 21, 2023
South Africa: Sobering Moments At Opening of SA Aids Conference
Amid the festivities during the opening ceremony of the 11th SA AIDS Conference in Durban on Tuesday, there were also several sobering moments. Chief among these was when co-chair… Read more »
June 01, 2023
South Africa: Part of Child Protection Is Allowing Children to Be Themselves When It Comes to Gender
South Africa is observing Child Protection Week from 29 May to 5 June to shine a spotlight on the rights of children as enshrined in the Constitution and the Children's Act. The… Read more »
April 21, 2023
South Africa: Struggle for Migrant Health Rights Still Far From Over After Landmark Judgment
On 14 April 2023, the High Court in Gauteng confirmed the rights of all pregnant and lactating women and children under age six to access services for free at all levels of care,… Read more »
February 20, 2023
South Africa: Some Improvement but Much More Needed to Address Health Needs of Key Populations
Bonang Moleleki, who represents Bong Jwa Tlhago Trans, a North West-based non-governmental organisation that works on transgender issues, tells Spotlight in her experience the… Read more »
January 27, 2023
South Africa: Changing the Law On Sex Work Will Save Lives, We Must See It Through
In December 2022, the Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, set into motion a public participation process on the laws that govern sex work in South Africa. Cabinet approved the… Read more »
November 23, 2022
South Africa: Kwazulu-Natal Doing Well Compared to Other Provinces but Some Health Services Still a Challenge
KwaZulu-Natal clinics are outperforming facilities monitored in other provinces on various indicators and health services in the province have improved year-on-year, but some… Read more »
November 21, 2022
South Africa: Face to Face - Prof Helen Rees On SAHPRA, Women's Rights, and Her Appetite for Justice
As a rebellious teenager growing up in the British town of Harpenden, Helen Rees would sneak out to attend anti-apartheid talks. "That was the stop-the-Boks tour," she recalls.… Read more »
November 16, 2022
South Africa: Decaying Infrastructure At Tambo Hospital Still Putting Patients and Health Workers At Risk
In 2017 an assessment commissioned by Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg in Gauteng reportedly found that the hospital building was "unfit for human habitation" and was considered… Read more »
October 24, 2022
South Africa: In the Hot Seat - New Gauteng Health MEC Responds to 10 Questions From Spotlight
On 7 October, Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi appointed Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko to the position of MEC for Health in the province. Nkomo-Ralehoko replaced Nomathemba Mokgethi, who… Read more »
October 18, 2022
South Africa: Can Health Be Fixed Without Fixing Politics?
In a recent article published on Daily Maverick, Mark Heywood remembers a moment of hope when activists, healthcare workers, and others came together in 2013 to find solutions to… Read more »
October 14, 2022
South Africa: Patients Bear Brunt of Worsening Conditions At Some Free State Clinics, Report Shows
"Today we were lucky they did not send us back home," says Makhothatso Mohomaile (63) outside the Bloemspruit Clinic in Mangaung where she is waiting on transport with her brother… Read more »
September 23, 2022
South Africa: Better Data Is First Step in Improving Services for Persons With Disabilities
South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world, with inequalities, including in health access and outcomes, drawn along racial, geographical, and socioeconomic… Read more »
August 26, 2022
South Africa: Towards Women-Centred Climate Change Decision-Making and Budgeting #AfricaClimateCrisis
The devastating impacts of ongoing climate change are already being felt in South Africa, with some researchers describing the region as a climate change hotspot. President Cyril… Read more »
August 19, 2022
Africa: Abortion Rights in Three African Countries After a Major Setback in the US
The right to abortion has been catapulted into the spotlight by Dobbs v Jackson, the landmark judgment of the United States (US) Supreme Court that overturned Roe v Wade - a… Read more »
August 12, 2022
South Africa: The Health Sector Can Help Address the Impact of Violence Against Women, Here's How
At the start of Women's month this year, the gang rape of eight women at a mine dump in Krugersdorp made headlines in South Africa and abroad, adding to the country's… Read more »
June 20, 2022
South Africa: Unacceptably Long Wait for Surgery in Free State, Healthcare Workers and Patients Say
Surgical waiting lists are not unexpected in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are indications that the situation is particularly acute in the Free State, and… Read more »
June 07, 2022
South Africa: Intimate Partner Violence in SA - Is It Getting Worse and How Do We Tackle It?
According to a recently published Lancet Psychiatry report, intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public mental health issue that requires collective societal change to tackle it… Read more »
May 27, 2022
South Africa: Open Letter - Dear Minister Phaahla, the 'Medical Tourist Mom' Is Little More Than a Convenient Myth
Dear Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla, Read more »
May 13, 2022
South Africa: What the Law Says About Medical Xenophobia in South Africa
The South African Constitution says the most basic forms of healthcare should be made accessible to all who reside in South Africa. However, this is not the lived experience of so… Read more »
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