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Period poverty: Stigmas add to young girls’ woes
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Millions of South African school girls have to contend with their monthly periods without having any access to sanitary products. Making their lives even more difficult, is the prevalence of stigmas which only worsen period poverty – a huge problem in our country. Up to seven million girls do not
World No Tobacco Day: South Africans are spending more on smoking
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
Although 90 percent of South African adults accept that smoking and second-hand smoke are bad for their health, they spend almost R300 a month on tobacco and related products. This is one of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey South Africa (GATS-SA) findings. Dr. Catherine Egbe, the principal investigator for the
KwaMhlanga hospital’s x-ray machine broken for months
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Patients at the KwaMhlanga hospital in Mpumalanga have to travel 60km away to get x-rays done. According to patients, the x-ray machine has not been working for over a month. Thabo Msiza said he took his father to KwaMhlanga hospital twice in April, and the machine was not working. “My
Child Protection Week: Drug abuse a major concern
Lilita Gcwabe
By the time she turned 18-years-old *Lisakhanya Dzedze had already experimented with CAT, cocaine, and marijuana. She also smoked and drank heavily. Her drug use started at 15 with a puff of weed. Her story is not unusual. A 2018 study on drug use amongst children in Sub-Saharan Africa found that
Steve Biko Academic Hospital: No staff or patients injured during blaze
Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
No patients or staff were injured during a fire that happened outside the casualty area at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria in the early hours of Monday morning. The Gauteng Department of Health said the fire broke out in a wendy house used as a temporary storage area
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