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Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) teaches learners in Soweto and Tembisa about understanding more about the food they eat, writes Pamela Mkhize.
The addition of emergency vehicles to the Eastern Cape fleet is welcomed but a trade union says more staff is also needed.
Members of the country’s biggest medical aid scheme — government employees — are concerned about the implementation of universal healthcare.
African experts and activists are left disappointed by the updated recommendations and have labelled them rushed and unconcerned with women’s lives.
Because of the financial challenges facing the provincial government, it is unable to adequately deal with problems in Tembisa Hospital.
While most moms think that ready-made fruit purees are good for their infants, research shows these products are high in sugar and labels aren’t easy to understand.
He has left an indelible mark on society. His untimely death more than a year ago, left both the local and global academic community reeling.
Government regulation into food labelling aims to empower South Africans to easily understand what is detrimental to their health.
The world is one step closer to ending the deadliest form of the deadliest infectious disease known to man: extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
South African activists are thrilled by the appointment of African feminist Winnie Byanyima to UNAIDS top spot, who is the first woman to hold the position in the history of the organisation.
A collective is radically reclaiming its township from pervasive fast food outlets by encouraging youth to grow their own food.
Expensive medical aid schemes could soon be a thing of the past when the National Health Insurance (NHI) takes off, ensuring adequate health care for all in the country.
