Monatea: The new no-sugar drink
With obesity levels on the rise globally and locally, and the link between it and the high intake of sugar, a newly launched drink is a welcomed reprieve.
Thousands go hungry after mismanagement of food relief
While the Gauteng government investigates corruption in the running of its food banks, those who rely on these banks are going hungry.
Stunting haunts a child for life
Poor nutrition in early childhood has a number of negative consequences for people later in life, according to Professor Daniela Casale, from Wits University’s School of Economic and Business Sciences.
Addressing gay men’s HIV risk
Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa are twice as likely as the general population to be HIV positive, mostly because their health needs are not being met by clinics.
No closure after mom’s mysterious hospital death
When Sammy Sappie went to visit his mother in Pholosong Hospital a few hours after she was admitted, he found her dead in the bed with the nurses on duty seemingly unaware that she had passed away.
Counting the costs of flu
The flu season can see you coughing up about R4000 in costs and the South African economy loses more than R2-billion because of colds and flu every year
Regulate private health prices, inquiry told
The long-awaited Competition Commission inquiry into private healthcare kicked off this week with an appeal for prices to be regulated
Gauteng to test 1 million by AIDS Day
The Gauteng Department of Health aims to test a million people for HIV by World AIDS Day on 1 December.
TAC members form home-based care organisation
Member of the AIDS lobby organisation the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have formed a home-based care organisation to help increase communities’ knowledge about HIV treatment east of Johannesburg.
Stockouts continue
Patients and nurses particularly in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Mpumalanga continue to report medicine stock-outs at local clinics, including shortages of antiretroviral medicine.