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 Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) may suspend its call for Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to quit as health minister — if the government "shows the leadership on HIV/Aids we have…
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…
The 550-bed Kimberley general hospital has won a number of awards for management and innovation, and is considered a case study in transformation. In the past six years, it has…
HIV/Aids programmes in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be implemented by doctors and nurses alone if they are to expand to meet the treatment needs of citizens, according to United…
The KwaZulu-Natal health department’s recent appeal for retired nurses to return to work to help alleviate staff shortages was condemned as unsustainable and "an abuse of 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…
The front-runner for the position of director general of health, Dr Victor Litlhakanyane, has withdrawn, apparently frustrated by the long delays in the finalisation of the post.…
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…
When Victor Litlhakanyane became the first black doctor to qualify in the Free State he was not welcome to eat with his white colleagues in the dining room of the province’s…
It’s lunchtime in Mdantsane and Mama G, along with about 30 others, is waiting outside the small clinic at NU13 as storm clouds gather. "The nurses sometimes have an hour for…
After 10 years of democracy we have many things to be grateful for, not least of them the fact that South Africa is preparing to launch the world’s biggest public sector…
With Mozambique’s poverty in mind, it is surprising to learn that it is already a step ahead of South Africa when it comes to HIV/Aids treatment. Mozambicans have been able to…
The South African man’s reputation is in crisis: he is held responsible for one of the world’s highest rape rates; he perpetrates domestic violence; and now experts tell us he is…
