District Blogs
About 95% of those calling into Andile Madondile’s show discussing VMMC on Monday showed strong support for his effort to educate the community on the vital health issues surrounding the controversial topic. While VMMC encountered strong opposition when it was first introduced last year, the community seems to be warming up to the idea, and [...]
Drinking establishments known as shebeens pose a high risk for the transmission of HIV, research shows. Alcohol use has been associated with a larger number of sexual partners for both men and women, and an increased incidence rate of unprotected vaginal intercourse. The dim lighting and intimate atmosphere in shebeens contributes to a sense of [...]
Follow up meeting with the CEO Anwar Kharwa of the Khayelitsha hospital. Khayelitsha met up with the CEO of the Khayelitsha hospital for a report back after TAC brought forward 30 testimonials taken from patients that experienced horrible service from the hospital. Mr Anwar Kharwa, the CEO of the hospital met with us on Monday [...]
Around 200 citizens attended the recent Community Council in the Eastern Cape, which focused on the proposed National Health Insurance policy and its potential effects on the regional and national health care system. Several concerns were raised during the council by those attending, highlighting issues within the community in need of attention. Perhaps the most [...]
Khayelitsha hospital, the pride of Khayelitsha, has been dubbed the new Jooster hospital by the community of Khayelitsha. Patients say that they wait throughout the night and sleep in the cold hard chairs before being attended to in the morning by a nurse or a doctor TAC Khayelitsha collected 30 testimonials from patients documenting [...]
TAC WC hosted its Provincial Annual General meeting in Cape Town on the 25-26 March 2013. The AGM was attended by 70 delegates, partners, donors, staff and supporters of TAC from across the Western Cape. The Provincial AGM formally reviewed the work of the organization in the province since the last congress. Part of the [...]
While we commemorated World TB day, we need to take stock of the progress we have made in fighting the disease. TB remains the number one cause of death in South Africa with approximately 500,000 new cases of TB disease per year. A further 13,000 new cases of drug resistant TB are projected for 2013. [...]
On the 15 March 2013 TAC WC and Free Gender marched against "Hate Crimes" in Khayelitsha from Nkanini to Harare where a memorandum was handed over to the MEC for Safety and Security. In the past months the LGBTI community of South Africa has witnessed and experienced immense trauma and pain due to the on-going [...]
On Monday the 18 February 2013 TAC WC attended the launch of the NHI pilot project in EDEN. The event took place in the George Town Hall, York Street, George. The event was attended by Prof. Craig Househam, Head of Health: Western Cape, Minister Botha, Dr Renette Crous, Chief Director: Rural Districts Health Services, Ms Florence Rhoxo, [...]
On the 01 January 2013 a fire started that left about 4000 people homeless and those who lost their lives was about 5 people of which two were children . The main reason why the fire was uncontrollable was because the area is highly dense with no streets for the fire fighters to reach homes. [...]
