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Kerry Cullinan
Kerry Cullinan is an award-winning journalist, who has been Managing Editor of Health-e since 2005
Sex workers abandoned as Covid-19 crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts
Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years
Patients before process, say doctors
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…
‘Poor simply fall out of the healthcare system’
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…
Going solo
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…
Hip to the odds
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…
Fort Napier Mental Hospital
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…
Mental health care in need of a boost
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…
West End Psychiatric and TB Hospital
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…
A study in neglect
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…
SA wants more say on Aids spending
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…
Scandal dogs council for alternative health
Two homeopaths holding top positions in the organisation that regulates the conduct of all South African homeopaths are being investigated for apparent fraudulent qualifications.…
Researchers note sharp drop in Zim HIV prevalence
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…
Official nod for voodoo trials?
”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…
Children thriving on Aids treatment
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…
Hospital battles to fight drug-resistant TB
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…