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#CoronavirusSA: Barriers to ARV access during lockdown
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For many HIV-positive South Africans, the national lockdown has hindered their ability to easily access antiretroviral drugs and treatment. However, convenient and cost-efficient options for medicine collection are available.
Activists calls on government to revise child grant plan
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Civil society groups put pressure on the government to provide a more child and women-centric socio-economic Covid-19 relief plan.
Public transport hours extended under level 4 restrictions
Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
The use of masks when travelling is compulsory, and Metrorail is still off the table — but the Transport Minister assures that these difficult decisions are made to ‘preserve human life’. By Kalayvani Nair.
Poor sanitation in schools in rural Limpopo are a threat to communities during Covid-19
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
Limpopo schools are not ready for reopening as water shortages are a barrier in practising good hygiene in the fight against Covid-19
LockdownSA: ‘Most of us have run out of food’
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
Over 600 Zimbabweans living near Louis Trichardt in Limpopo say they have no food because they have been unable to earn a living since South Africa went into lockdown last month to combat the spread of Covid-19.
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