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Bontle Motsoeneng

Bontle Motsoeneng is an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the Free State’s Thabo Mofutsanyane Health District.

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Curse of the ‘blessers’
By Bontle Motsoeneng, July 18, 2016

Curse of the ‘blessers’

Health minister launches plan to keep girls in school – and out of the clutches of abusive sugar daddies.

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Posted in: HIV and AIDS, News, OurHealth
Tags: blessersfeaturedHIVHIV and children
Curse of the ‘blessers’
Losing a child to HIV
By Bontle Motsoeneng, July 14, 2016

Losing a child to HIV

After her first child died of AIDS and she miscarried her second, Melita enrolled in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme and saved her third.

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Posted in: HIV and AIDS, OurHealth
Tags: AIDSfeaturedmaternal and infant health
Losing a child to HIV
Finding out about my HIV status at 13
By Bontle Motsoeneng, July 12, 2016

Finding out about my HIV status at 13

AIDS2016: Being a teen is hard enough, but for Bongani Radebe, it also meant discovering that he had been born with HIV

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Posted in: AIDS 2016, HIV and AIDS, OurHealth
Tags: featuredLiving with HIVPMTCT
Finding out about my HIV status at 13
AIDS2016: Coming out – twice
By Bontle Motsoeneng, July 10, 2016

AIDS2016: Coming out – twice

It’s hard enough having to tell your parents that you are gay – but a young Free State man also had to tell his loved ones he was HIV positive.

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Posted in: AIDS 2016, HIV and AIDS, LGBTI, OurHealth
Tags: AIDS 2016featuredHIV and gay
AIDS2016: Coming out – twice
May celebrations honour nurses with heart
By Bontle Motsoeneng, May 25, 2016

May celebrations honour nurses with heart

Every May, the world marks International Nurses Day. We take a look at how the Free State and Northern Cape said “thank you” to South Africa’s nurses.

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Posted in: Nursing, OurHealth
May celebrations honour nurses with heart
Child waits 10 years for wheelchair
By Bontle Motsoeneng, May 25, 2016

Child waits 10 years for wheelchair

Tumelo Letsitsa from Qwaqwa is like “a new child” ever since he got a wheelchair a month ago.

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Posted in: Children's Health, OurHealth
Child waits 10 years for wheelchair
Cancer an unknown killer in rural South Africa
By Bontle Motsoeneng, April 11, 2016

Cancer an unknown killer in rural South Africa

For many women in rural areas, cancer remains a killer and some say they knew too little to see the dreaded diagnosis coming.

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Posted in: Cancer and Tobacco Control, OurHealth, Rural Health
Tags: featured
Cancer an unknown killer in rural South Africa
Students cautioned about Ritalin abuse
By Bontle Motsoeneng, March 25, 2016

Students cautioned about Ritalin abuse

As tertiary institutions reopen across the country, the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SANCA) has issued a strong warning to students to steer clear of performance-enhancing drugs.

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Posted in: Addiction & Rehabilitation, OurHealth
Tags: featuredritalin abuse
Students cautioned about Ritalin abuse
Long clinic queue becomes money maker
By Bontle Motsoeneng, March 20, 2016

Long clinic queue becomes money maker

Monica Moloi spent hours watching patients queue at her nextdoor clinic until she realised she was looking at an opportunity.

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Posted in: Health Management, OurHealth
Tags: featured
Long clinic queue becomes money maker
How to survive student drinking
By Bontle Motsoeneng, February 18, 2016

How to survive student drinking

Students and scholars are increasingly facing pressure to drink and be part of the “in crowd”, says the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca).

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Posted in: Alcohol & Drugs
Tags: alcohol abuse
How to survive student drinking
Free State residents go thirsty as dam dries up
By Bontle Motsoeneng, January 15, 2016

Free State residents go thirsty as dam dries up

For thirsty Qwaqwa residents in the Free State, their next drink of water may be more likely to come on wheels instead of from the tap as reservoir water levels run low.

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Posted in: OurHealth, Water & Sanitation
Tags: featured
Free State residents go thirsty as dam dries up
Are we obsessed with tighter vaginas?
By Bontle Motsoeneng, December 18, 2015

Are we obsessed with tighter vaginas?

A Chinese dried fruit delicacy is selling like hot cakes in the Free State as women believe the fruit will give them tighter, more youthful vaginas. Experts say the obsession with the mythical tight vagina says as about our understanding of anatomy as it does about our times.

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Posted in: OurHealth, Sexuality, Women's Health
Tags: featured
Are we obsessed with tighter vaginas?
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