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While the world works together in fighting COVID-19, South Africa is battling its own epidemic on the sidelines – a combination of HIV and TB.
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in new ways of doing things to curb the spread of the virus, with one significant trend being the adoption of telehealth services.
A homeless cancer patient living on Louis Botha Avenue in Orange Grove, north east of Johannesburg, is living in a world of pain and discomfort as he battles rectal cancer.
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The Gauteng provincial government has piloted a vaccination rollout program aimed at taxi drivers at a taxi rank in Tembisa and expects to vaccinate between 12 000 and 14 000 drivers though this initiative.
Health officials in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro are concerned that the demand for COVID-19 vaccinations has dropped in an area where daily infections are on the rise despite the introduction of weekend pop-up sites in several communities.
Travelling long distances for treatment is a thing of the past for Mpumalanga cancer patients, who can now receive treatment at the newly-opened oncology unit at Rob Ferreira Hospital in Mbombela.
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Three senior North West Health Department officials have been suspended, pending an investigation into allegations that they turn away black community members at a vaccination site, in favour of family members and friends.
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First-hand experience served as the perfect motivation for mom-of-three Marita Bezuidenhout who launched her homemade baby food range Tummies Full of Love seven years ago.
University students from KwaZulu-Natal reveal their thoughts on the achieving food security, both locally and globally, as International Youth Day casts a spotlight on transforming food systems.
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) took to the streets earlier this week to demand that Gauteng Premier David Makhura and Health MEC, Dr Nomathembu Mokgethi, improve healthcare services in the provinces.
A young motivational speaker, who was given a month to live and was later declared dead on the operating table due to a heart condition, has written a book Miracle Girl about her journey of survival and overcoming the odds.
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As South Africa celebrates Women’s Day and marks 65 years since women marched against Apartheid pass laws, brave and strong women remain at the forefront of another crisis currently facing our society – the COVID-19 pandemic. By Kagiso Keipopele