May 22nd, 2019A Cape Town gynaecologist has made giving birth a little safer by turning a cheap surgical glove into a device that stops excessive post-birth bleeding, reports The...
A Cape Argus report says according to the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition (SRJC), less than 7% of the country’s health facilities provide abortions, creating...South Africa
South Africa has been experiencing a protracted shortage of the DT (diphtheria and tetanus) vaccine, starting in late 2018, reports IoL.
Frustrated with being given...Weekly Roundup
About 200 community health workers marched to the Western Cape Health Department in Cape Town last week. Groundup reports that the march was organised by the National...Medico-Legal
Western Cape Health has asked the Cape Town High Court to clarify the power of the National Council of Provinces select committee on petitions, reports The...Weekly Roundup
A report by workers at the Tygerberg Hospital communication centre described the working environment as “toxic”. According to a Cape Argus report, the report, dated...SA Provincial Health
A doctor fired by the Western Cape Health for sexually assaulting a nurse after giving her a date-rape drug was back at work this week. The Times reports that Dr...South Africa
South Africa's national Health Department has withdrawn its instruction to provinces to charge foreign patients the maximum rate, saying the directive should never have...HIV/AIDS
Researchers have presented results from the HPTN 071 (PopART) study at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle. The study...Weekly Roundup
The Western Cape Health Department is vaccinating 9-year-old girls in public schools against the human papilloma-virus which has been linked to cervical cancer....
