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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.
PRESS STATEMENT. – Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, announced a landmark $19.4 million in support of 15 innovative, pioneering projects designed to improve mental health diagnosis and care in developing countries, many of them nations ravaged by conflict and disaster as well as poverty.
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Today a 77 year old paediatric oncologist sits in prison in Abu Dhabi while he waits to be retried for an offence he was originally convicted of more than 10 years ago, in absentia. Although that original conviction has been set aside he has been charged again with manslaughter, even though the courts apparently have no files or contact with the family of the dead patient.
Story by Thandeka Vinjwa, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Lusikisiki in the OR Tambo district of the Eastern Cape.
Story by Selloane Molakeng, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Bethlehem in the Free State.
Dr Aaron Motsoaledi rubs his forehead and repositions himself in his chair, leaning forward as if to make sure the point come across clearly: ‘I will say it upfront. There is no way National Health Insurance (NHI) will function anywhere if the public health system is not functioning well.’
Story by Sydney Makgai, an OurHealth citizen journalist reporting on health issues in the Tshwane district, Gauteng.
Mayor Patricia de Lille has admitted that the City’s janitorial services in informal services needed to be jacked up and her office has taken over the monitoring of this service.
Each year around a thousand young women addicted to crystal methamphetamine, or tik, give birth to so-called tik babies in Cape Town.
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Africa is a major target for tobacco industry sales and marketing, warned the American Cancer Society (ACS) and World Lung Foundation at the launch of French version of latest Tobacco Atlas. in Dakar Senegal recently.
The head of the ailing Gauteng Health Department, Dr Nomonde Xundu, is reported to have requested that she be relieved of her duties. Her move is seen as an admission of her failure to manage the distressed provincial Health Department. But Xundu denies any reports that she is leaving.
Story by Mtshana Mvlisi, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist based in the OR Tambo District in the Eastern Cape.