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/ 6 November 2015
A task team set up by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has found the HPCSA has failed to function effectively.
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/ 14 October 2015
There are almost two and a half times more overweight people than undernourished, with almost 30% of the global population weighing too much.
Diepsloot’s Green Door, a help service for victims of sexual violence, gets a boost, writes Mia Malan.
A rape survivor receives no help from local police and lives in fear in her Diepsloot home.
Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.
New World Health Organisation guidelines recommend anyone infected with HIV is put on ARVs, regardless of their CD4 count.
Despite cervical cancer being the most preventable form of cancer, it is afflicting more South African women than any other kind.
Infectious diseases such as HIV and, increasingly, non-communicable illnesses like diabetes are resulting in more cases of chronic depression.
A cruel, unrelenting cycle of poverty, drinking and fetal alcohol syndrome robs families of all hope.
A quarter of public clinics ran out of HIV and TB medication last year, a survey has found.