Itâs been a month since I applied and now itâs a matter of days until I go. I head to Europe for briefing before landing in Freetown, Sierra Leone next Tuesday.
Kathryn Stinson
Feature | 26 September 2014
You probably wouldn't sprinkle antibiotics like sugar all over your breakfast cereal every morning, even if you were sick. There is, though, a good chance that you are in effect doing something similar today on Heritage Day. The steaks you are braaing, or the chicken being grilled is likely to contain traces of antibiotics.
Nicholas Ashby
Opinion | 24 September 2014
Traditional Xhosa views on epilepsy clash with medical experts.
Zintle Swana
Feature | 22 September 2014
Arrive in Smithfield from any direction and the first official board one sees announces: âMohokare declares war on wasteâ. The chief weapon in that war is a platoon of temporary workers hired under governmentâs Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) administered by local municipalities.
Carmel Rickard
News | 16 September 2014
As we celebrate the second Global Female Condom Day on 16 September 2014, I join the celebrations with a wide smile and confidence, writes Nokhwezi Hoboyi.
Nokhwezi Hoboyi
News | 16 September 2014
On 13 September Equal Education marched in Johannesburg for decent school sanitation in Gauteng. Brad Brockman, the organisation's General Secretary, explains the campaign.
Brad Brockman
Opinion | 16 September 2014
This week in activism we cover the symposium on torture hosted by the Wits Justice Project, the march by Equal Education for better sanitation for schools in Gauteng, and the âWhat if Womenâ challenge by WHEAT.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 11 September 2014
An unbearable smell lingers in the air of RR Section to the point where you can taste it. This is the daily struggle for Khayelitsha residents who live next to overflowing drains and toilets that still remain unfixed by the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 8 September 2014
DA leader and Western Cape premier Helen Zille has again entered the HIV prevention arena, telling us we are failing to deal with HIV because we donât have the right approach to taking personal responsibility for sexual behaviours.
Francois Venter
Opinion | 4 September 2014
This week in political activism we look at Sonke Gender Justiceâs call for government to take urgent action on hate crime, charges laid by TAC against senior health officials in Bloemfontein, and the launch of an urgent intervention on behalf of Marikana residents.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 4 September 2014
The National Department of Health (NDoH) has sent out a circular nationally to all doctors, nurses and pharmacists informing them of a shortage of a paediatric anti-AIDS drug called nevirapine, used to prevent HIV infection in the newborn children of mothers with HIV.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 2 September 2014
Sunday 31 August was International Overdose Awareness Day. Health workers in Cape Town have warned of a possible increase in drug overdoses and the spread of infectious diseases, including HIV, if the use of needles to inject drugs increases.
Ian Broughton
News | 2 September 2014
In a bid to get thousands of men in the Western Cape circumcised, the national department of health (NDoH) officially cut the ribbon to launch the new mobile theatres which will be going around the Capeâs remote areas, to get males circumcised.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 1 September 2014
Several prisoners intend suing the Department of Correctional Services because they contracted tuberculosis (TB) in prison.
GroundUp Staff
News | 28 August 2014
One of the major medical advances of the last few decades has been the two-dose vaccine for children against measles. A responsible doctor or public health expert would not do anything to jeopardise public confidence in the vaccine. Yet this is exactly what UCT's Professor Tim Noakes did this past weekend, writes Nathan Geffen.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 27 August 2014
Sindi (not her real name) is a 13-year-old girl who lives in the informal settlement of Masiphumelele near Fish Hoek in Cape Town. She meets the definition of being obese.
Thembela Ntongana
News | 25 August 2014