Interactive Data Dashboards
Live indicators, province breakdowns and downloadable data.
Numbers from the National Institute of Communicable Disease and from some provinces show that TB diagnoses have dropped dramatically in 2020 – likely due to COVID-19 and the related lockdown. The Eastern Cape Department of Health has however declined to share information on the TB situation in the province and their catch-up plans. Some activists…
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With chronic health worker shortages and limited resources such as ventilators in rural public health facilities, how did Zithulele Hospital in OR Tambo District manage its COVID-19 cases? Tiyese Jeranji spoke to two doctors working at Zithulele about an innovative oxygen solution, infection control, and much more.
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The dire state of health infrastructure and services in the Eastern Cape has made headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic and triggered promises of government intervention, but in some hospitals those providing and receiving healthcare note little to no improvement. Luvuyo Mehlwana reports.
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In April 2010, South Africa launched an ambitious HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign. Apart from some concerning reports of forced testing, the campaign was a success, testing over 10 million people by June 2011. After an impressive start, there are worrying signs that the campaign might be hitting some speed bumps. Randomised placebo-controlled trials…
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April 2010, South Africa launched an ambitious HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign. Apart from some concerning reports of forced testing, the campaign was a success, testing over 10 million people by June 2011. After an impressive start, there are worrying signs that the campaign might be hitting some speed bumps. The UNAIDS reports that…
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A new study is being planned for South Africa. The results from the study could change first-line treatment here and in other low- and middle-income countries. What are the new drugs that will be studied? For first-line HIV treatment, South African, World Health Organisation (WHO) and many other national guidelines currently recommend a fixed dose…
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results in from the landmark START trial, all dials are aligning on how to beat back the HIV epidemic. Everything is set, but will there be lift-off? In July findings from the landmark START trial were presented at the International AIDS Society Conference held in Vancouver, Canada, and simultaneously published in the New England Journal…
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is an important drug for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). Together with three other drugs, it makes up the four-in-one pill that people with drug-susceptible (DS) TB are treated with in South Africa. The other three drugs are rifampicin, isoniazid and ethambutol. Apart from its existing use, pyrazinamide also forms part of almost all experimental…
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Most people who inhale the tuberculosis (TB) bug never get sick with TB because their bodies are able to contain the bug successfully. When the body controls TB infection like this, the infection is referred to as latent TB. In healthy individuals with latent TB the probability of developing active TB disease during their lifetime…
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Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron and his law clerks have published a scathing report of Pollsmoor Prison after visiting the remand centre – where awaiting trial prisoners are kept – and the women’s centre on 23 April. Some of their findings are consistent with those reported by GroundUp in May. “Justice Cameron and his law…
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In 2012, 26-year-old Khululwa Bam went into labour at the Site B Hospital Midwives Obstetrics Unit. When her water broke, a security guard at the hospital told her she had to clean up her mess before she could be admitted into the hospital, and handed her a mop. Khululwa struggled for hours but didn’t have…
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In June 2015, 33-year-old Mirriam Senoe went into labour and was taken to Michael Mapongwana Day Hospital. On arrival, the nurses performed a full examination on her and the baby concluding that, although she was in labour, it was not time for her to give birth. She was provided with a bed at the back…
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