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OURHEALTH. – Residents from the Shiya Bazali township face many of challenges every day. The informal settlement has no municipal services which mean no electricity, no flushing toilets and only one communal tap for the whole township. By Lungile Ngubane
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OURHEALTH. – Dr Pieter Murray is a Bethlehem resident and one of the area’€™s approximately 4 500 donors with the South African National Blood Services (SANBS). by Selloane Molakeng
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OURHEALTH. ‘€“ Residents of the Selahliwe informal settlement have had to deal with poor sanitation and disgraceful toilet facilities for years. by Thamsanqa Majola.
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Story by Mtshana Mvlisi, OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Lusikisiki in the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape.
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OURHEALTH. – Community members from the Vhembe district in Limpopo this week held a gathering at the Matavhela Clinic to celebrate the success the community has achieved in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Story by Surprise Nemalale.
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OURHEALTH. – Mashudu Maemu and Oscar Magedana wrote an inspirational book to help discourage discrimination against mental illness. Story by Ndivhuwo Musetha.
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CAPE TOWN. ‘€“ South African children have equal rights under the Constitution, but the worlds into which they are born and their opportunities in life are very unequal. This was the message Katharine Hall, senior researcher at the Children’€™s Institute (CI) at the University of Cape Town shared yesterday at the launched the South African Child Gauge 2012, an annual review on the state of South Africa’s children.
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MEDIA RELEASE: An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2012.
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This video spotlights the devastating global tobacco epidemic and how the tobacco industry works to addict new users, especially kids.
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Story by Thamsanqa Majola, OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Bethlehem in the Free State.
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Story by Mishack Mahlangu, the OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the Tshwane district in Gauteng.
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Lung cancer patients who quit smoking longer than a year before being diagnosed have better survival outcomes than patients who continue to smoke. This is according to a new study published in the journal Cancer.