Interactive Data Dashboards
Live indicators, province breakdowns and downloadable data.
NSP Review COMMENT: The Treatment Action Campaign’s Western Cape office has been highlighting what appears to be serious problems in maternity and obstetrics units (MOUs) in the provincial healthcare system. After a number of shocking cases were reported to the TAC Western Cape, a public meeting was called in Khayelitsha where many women shared their…
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Virginia is a small gold mining town in the Free State. This once-lively town has slowed down significantly, with only a few of the mines still operational. The streets are quiet, and the first petrol station heading into the township closed years ago. Many of the residents describe it as a ghost town. However, there…
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“The doctor examined me and he looked me in the eyes and said angrily, ‘What does it mean if the baby’s heart is not beating?’ I just kept quiet,” she remembers. Then the doctor said to her, “This child you are carrying has been dead since January.” hrough tears Betty Mabuza recounted the deeply painful…
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NSP Review COMMENT: Community healthcare workers are the backbone of South Africa’s health system. There is no doubt that this cadre of healthcare worker play a critical role in ensuring that people living with HIV and/or tuberculosis are diagnosed early, take their medication and access the health system when issues arise. Their role is especially…
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Their lawyers are preparing to fight in court, but for many of the miners who contracted lung disease from the silica dust on South Africa’s gold mines, it’s too late.. Miners with silicosis and tuberculosis are dying at an “alarming” rate, warn their lawyers in a 181- page document asking the Gauteng High Court for…
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NSP Review COMMENT: A small community of mineworkers in Zithulele in the Eastern Cape is slowly dying from lung related diseases. Turberculosis and Silicosis are synonymous to these former mineworkers. They struggle to breathe, to work, to live. Their only hope for compensation for the years of suffering they have already endured and that lies…
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Drug stock-outs are a national crisis and the Eastern Cape has felt the effect even more acutely in the last few years a result of catastrophic decision-making by the Eastern Cape Department of Health. As recently as May 2015, National Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi was forced to return from an international trip to address…
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Nombulelo Yose is the picture of good health. Her vitals are strong and, thanks to the support she receives at work, she’s come to terms with her HIV status. Nombulelo now works as a data capturer at Keiskamma Trust, a non-profit organisation based in Hamburg, about an hour’s drive from East London. But not so…
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When Nosiphiwo Sitshetshe (33) was diagnosed with HIV in February 2012, she was devastated. She had contracted TB from her partner, and as a result was tested for the virus. She was immediately started on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, but things at home were unbearable. Her family made life extremely difficult so she fled to her…
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Baby Mivuyo Damsesi clutches a toy ambulance in her grubby 2-year-old hands. Her mother, Noluthando Damsesi (28) says that it was given to her at the crèche she attends in Silatsha Village, 50 km from East London. This is likely the only ambulance the little girl has seen in her short life. On the night…
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On 25 and 26 March 2015, the South African Human Commission held a hearing on access to Emergency Medical Services in the Eastern Cape following a complaint from the community of Xhora Mouth and months of advocacy and analysis from the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition. People from across the province told stories of…
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On the first day of September 2015, two trucks clear a large plot of land to lay the foundation of the new Village Clinic. This should be a moment for celebration but Nonyameko Ntiyo is exasperated; construction of the clinic is long overdue. Nonyameko is one of the patients of Lusikisiki Village Clinic who participated…
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