Residents in these informal settlements rely on nearby streams or distant townships for water, sometimes paying for access or resorting to illegal connections ..read more

The free flowing wastewater make it difficult to even walk down the street. In some areas, the roads are so damaged that cars won’t drive there ..read more

Many people who cannot afford to buy drinking water rely solely on water provided by the trucks. But there have been concerns from residents on how safe it is to drink the water from these trucks ..read more

There is a group of people who have HIV, are not on treatment, yet the virus in their bodies is undetectable. This population is known as elite controllers ..read more

In the village of kwaZangashe, residents grapple with severe delays in emergency medical services and a chronic shortage of healthcare facilities ..read more

I am a professional nurse at Jericho clinic in the North West. I have been working at this clinic since April 2021 after leaving Unit 9 clinic in Ngaka Modiri, also in the North West.  I left Unit 9 in March 2021 because of challenges that included consistent shortages of medication like ARVs, TB drugs and psychiatric drugs. Little did I know that the problems I thought I was running away from at Unit 9 would catch up with me at Jericho clinic.  My first few months at the clinic were great. I enjoyed working here because I did not experience many challenges in providing good patient ..read more

High risk exposure to mpox includes intimate or close contact including direct skin-to-skin ..read more

Manapo hospital in the Free State is facing long-standing water shortages and frequent power cuts. Patients must bring their own water, and operations have been disrupted ..read more

The fire which broke out at Phuthuloha hospital is the second fire at a Free State hospital in two in weeks ..read more

A nurse tells Health-e News that stating that the official responsible for refuelling the generator was absent during the outage and has since been suspended ..read more