Topic: Health | GroundUp

How we know a new medicine is so effective at preventing HIV transmission

There was not a single HIV transmission in a clinical trial in which women volunteers used the twice-yearly injectable drug lenacapavir

By Polly Clayden

Science | 1 August 2024

Nurses stop work after finding human waste at clinic door

Mabandla Clinic in Kariega still has no fence or wall

By Thamsanqa Mbovane

Brief | 30 July 2024

Judge blocks government plan to tell private hospitals and doctors where they can go

“Certificate of Need” scheme thrown out of National Health Act

By Tania Broughton

Law | 24 July 2024

Court finds Netcare failed to protect employee against an abusive surgeon

Operating theatre manager wins her case

By Tania Broughton

Law | 16 July 2024

Farm workers demand transparency on pesticide regulations

Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says protest was “premature”

By Liezl Human

Brief | 5 July 2024

Outcry over loss of sports field to make way for a hospital in Gugulethu

The site is a poor choice and the impact on the community was not considered, say residents

By Sandiso Phaliso

Brief | 2 July 2024

President urged to make sanitary pads free

I_Menstruate Movement launches “period poverty” exhibition in Franschhoek

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

Brief | 24 June 2024

Mpox in South Africa: here’s what we know

Health department reports second death from the disease

By Marecia Damons

News | 13 June 2024

Pesticides are polluting Western Cape rivers all year round

Studies of three river catchments have found an association between pesticide exposure and poorer brain function in children

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 12 June 2024

Radiation therapy graduates unplaced for six months by health department

Graduates are required by law to complete the Internship and Community Service Programme in order to practise

By Liezl Human

News | 10 June 2024

Gauteng government funds new drug rehab while defunding existing ones

Clinix Foundation was approved for R11-million in funding in just three weeks

By Daniel Steyn, Masego Mafata and Raymond Joseph

News | 6 June 2024

Almost half of state-funded drug rehab beds in Gauteng under threat

Organisations are “under investigation” but have not been told why

By Daniel Steyn, Masego Mafata and Raymond Joseph

News | 5 June 2024

Stun grenades thrown at farm women outside Parliament

200 women were marching to call for a ban on pesticides

By Liezl Human

News | 4 June 2024

Eastern Cape clinic serving a dozen villages is falling apart

Patients at Gilton clinic complain of medication shortages, broken medical equipment, no proper furniture, staff shortages and high patient volume.

By Sandiso Phaliso

News | 24 May 2024

Colchester clinic is crumbling, with broken ceilings, windows and no electricity

But the Eastern Cape Department of Health says there’s no money to renovate the clinic

By Joseph Chirume

News | 22 May 2024

“Silent disease” outed at African Hepatitis Convention

Many South Africans with hepatitis go undiagnosed

By Liezl Human

News | 20 May 2024