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.

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.

This video spotlights the devastating global tobacco epidemic and how the tobacco industry works to addict new users, especially kids.

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.

The first detailed study to estimate the global impact of cancer has revealed that nearly 170 million years of healthy life were lost in 2008 because of the disease.

With effective treatment and dedicated paediatric cancer units in place, very few children should be dying from cancer in South Africa. Yet, only one in three present for treatment. Today (Friday, 15 February) is International Childhood Cancer Day and time to reflect on the childhood cancer situation in the country.