Health
Community health workers demand higher wages
Workers have accused the provincial health department of not upholding a 2017 agreement to standardise stipends
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 5 October 2018
Activists call for improved access to safe abortions
“We have a right as women to choose what we do with our bodies without being questioned”
By Zoë Postman
News | 29 September 2018
New tuberculosis vaccine raises hopes
But one more large trial is needed, says TB activist
By Kim Reynolds
Brief | 28 September 2018
Nine-year-old circumcised at school by “mistake”
Doctor and health team suspended
News | 18 September 2018
Community healthcare workers demand full-time employment
“We do all the dirty jobs in clinics yet we are not being recognised”
Brief | 13 September 2018
Ignorance about people with HIV still exists in 2018
“It was like I was dirty … I had no choice but to leave home”
News | 7 September 2018
Authorities respond after residents shut down clinic
Port Elizabeth clinic is plagued by crime
Brief | 24 August 2018
Paramedics seen as soft targets by criminals on the Cape Flats
City has 16 “red zones” where ambulances need police escorts
News | 15 August 2018
TAC and Corruption Watch want ANC to take action against former Gauteng health officials
Qedani Mahlangu and Brian Hlongwa left health department in “shambles” say civil society organisations
By Zoë Postman
Brief | 7 August 2018