A Northern Cape mother who gave birth to a child with genitals that are not typically female or male is raising her child to choose his own identity and life path, despite the difficulties and challenges they encounter.
Residents of Kuruman in the Northern Cape are up in arms after free condom supplies to local hospitals and clinics have run out.
Kuruman – a small town in the Northern Cape – has become a hot spot for human trafficking, with young women and children being targeted and in some cases even murdered.
Some women in rural areas of the Northern Cape, where efforts are underway to promote increased usage of female condoms, have said they are against the device.
The Wrenchville community clinic, situated about 5kms outside Kuruman in the Nothern Cape, has been badly vandalised by angry community members who stoned the facility and burnt down the community hall and library.
As the countdown to the 21st International AIDS Conference to be held in Durban enters the last few days, the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality responded to SANAC Chairperson and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal for coordinated activities to mark the event.
Malebo* was sick when she gave birth to her daughter 12 years ago, and soon realised her newborn was too. Medical tests done at the time confirmed that both mother and child were HIV positive. She tells Mpho Lekgetho her story.
About one in every 110 children may be born with autism but the condition remains a mystery to most leaving children and parents unsure, unsupported and more often than not - judged.
As school health teams get underway with the country's third annual human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination drive, Northern Cape public meetings aim to convince skeptical caregivers that the jab may be the best shot young girls have at preventing cervical cancer.
For some rural patients, hundreds of kilometres and long nights spent sleeping in the cold can stand between them and care for complicated illnesses like cancer and drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). One Northern Cape hospital is making the journey a little easier.
A Northern Cape community has been shocked by the suicide attempt by a 10-year-old boy. Experts say that children who attempt suicide may be calling out for help to deal with anxiety and an inability to cope with certain situations.
A staggering 80 percent of people living with disabilities globally live in poverty, according to the National Department of Social Development.
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