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Kerry Cullinan is an award-winning journalist, who has been Managing Editor of Health-e since 2005
Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years
The KwaZulu-Natal health department has identified a quiet rural doctor as a troublemaker, charging him with misconduct for "wilfully and unlawfully without prior permission of…
As the Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) began three days of public hearings on health services, based on a nine-province review, one of its most shocking findings is that poor…
The transformation of Africa’s biggest hospital is being closely watched by trade unions and the Gauteng departments of health and public service and administration to see…
It is 9.15am and Wilson Mhlongo is being prepared for an operation to replace the ball and joint of his right hip, which are eroded by arthritis. He winces, his eyes screwed up…
Despite a desperate need for facilities for psychiatric patients, Fort Napier Hospital in Pietermaritzburg is operating way below capacity because it simply lacks the staff to…
Psychiatric patients have long been neglected by the health system and hidden from the public eye. Recently, a commission of enquiry heard evidence of gross abuse — including…
Jeannette, a slender young woman with a squint, tries to shuffle out through the security gate behind us, but is roughly restrained by a stocky woman who puts a heavy forearm…
Kimberley has one of the best doctor-patient ratios in the country but, a few kilometres away, Warrenton Hospital battles to attract a single doctor. To listen to Sister Gail…
The South African government on Monday demanded a greater say over the way millions in United States HIV/Aids funding is spent in the country, arguing that giving the money…
Two homeopaths holding top positions in the organisation that regulates the conduct of all South African homeopaths are being investigated for apparent fraudulent qualifications.…
Changes in sexual behaviour seem to be behind the dramatic drop in HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe, according to researchers. There has been an almost 50% decline in HIV prevalence in…
”There is total disregard for the well-being and safety of our people [in Khayelitsha] who are being used as guinea pigs,” declared Smuts Ngonyama, head of the presidency in the…
Three-year-old Elihle Xulu shrieks with delight when he sees his mother, Nompumelelo, in the clinic’s garden. She kicks a soccer ball for him and he runs panting after it. Then…
KwaZulu-Natal has the most tuberculosis cases in the country, but hospitals are fighting a losing battle against deadly multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB). Although cases…
HIV has completely changed the face of South Africa’s tuberculosis epidemic, with tuberculosis (TB) patients today being young, sicker and often with unusual presentations of TB,…
While schools are under pressure to distribute condoms at schools, not one of the 12 African countries represented at a high-level meeting in Durban is doing so and most…
In the past decade the best-equipped hospital in Africa, the new Inkosi Albert Luthuli central hospital, has been built in Durban, along with almost a third of the…
According to the Medical Research Council, 40% of deaths in 2000 of those between the ages of 15 and 49 were Aids-related. Each year, the percentage increases as the epidemic…
