Violence is common in Western Cape teen relationships
An ambitious school programme has been able to cut violence in teen relationships by 11% but is unable to realise full potential as WCED won't allow it during school time
Kerry Cullinan
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Anti-tobacco crusader endorses e-cigarettes
While many say there isn't enough evidence to show that e-cigarettes are safe and beneficial, Vitality Institute head Derek Yach has endorsed them and called on government not to regulate them
NHI: Doing things differently in KZN
There’s a quiet revolution in one of the poorest districts in the land, where health workers have moved out of health facilities into communities to prevent rather than cure health problems
NHI: New system lets patients pick up medicine from shops
Patients in rural KwaZulu-Natal are able to pick up their medicine from a wide range of local pick-up points, in a national experiment aimed at cutting the long queues at hospital pharmacies.
SA a ‘priority area’, says Gates Foundation
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the Gates Foundation has helped to vaccinate half-a-billion children worldwide and made a massive contribution to global health.
WHO ‘cannot continue as is’
Both WHO and new UN sustainable development goals criticised by Gates Foundation Global Partners delegates
Antidote to poor health services?
Horror stories about public health facilities have become common, but a new entity, the Office of Health Standards Compliance, has been set up to monitor standards and it has the legal muscle to force failing institutions to improve.
Editorial: Decentralise treatment for drug-resistant TB
Decentralised treatment of people with drug-resistant TB reaches more patients and is cheaper - yet government is dragging its feet to implement this approach, which it adopted as policy in 2011
Bad dagga, good dagga?
People who use high-potency cannabis (“skunk”) every day are five times more likely to have a schizophrenia-like psychotic episode than those who don’t, according to new research.
Vaginal gel fails to protect against HIV despite earlier trial
In a blow for HIV prevention, a vaginal gel that showed some effect against HIV in an earlier trial has failed to protect women in a big follow-up trial.
Anti-TAC march is condemned
There has been widespread condemnation of a march against the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) organised by the ANC Youth League and others in the Free State.
In-Depth: Water trucks take over as communities run dry
Amid ongoing power cuts, many communities are dealing with intermittent water supplies and relying on water trucks for portable water as municipalities struggle to maintain their water systems.