Despite South Africa’s small business sector being hard hit by COVID-19 restrictions, women in Limpopo still believe that entrepreneurship is the most effective way to beat unemployment and poverty.
It’s been over a year since COVID-19 first hit South Africa. Since then, many people have been living in constant fear and many have lost loved ones. Frontline healthcare workers had no choice but to face their fears if they were to keep doing the life-saving work they were trained for. Amy Green, for Spotlight and Health-e News, and colleagues explore the emotional toll that South Africa’s third wave of COVID-19 is taking on healthcare workers.
The Free State government is holding roadshows to educate people about PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) as a means to prevent HIV infection from sexual contact, especially HIV negative people at risk of contracting the virus from their partners.
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.
South Africans are suffering from severe psychosocial stress, caused by socio-economic challenges that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many are suffering from depression, burnout and anxiety. Clinical psychologist, Dr JD du Toit, weighs in how to cope in these stressful times.
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 mom of a disabled six-year-old son, who suffers from dyskinetic cerebral palsy, from Folweni Township in KwaZulu-Natal, is struggling to stay afloat as the sole breadwinner at home.
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.
A South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) report has confirmed that the 29 people who died after receiving their COVID-19 vaccines most likely passed away due to pre-existing comorbidities and not from the jab.
Mental health institutions in the Eastern Cape remain severely understaffed in a time where mental health services and beds are most needed given the current COVID-19 situation in the province.
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.
As South Africa continues to battle the third wave of the pandemic and is likely to face a fourth towards the end of the year, a debate has started around whether South Africans would be willing to get a COVID-19 booster jab.
With World Lung Cancer day having been commemorated earlier this month, Sunday 1 August, the Department of Health and the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) have called on South Africans to increase their awareness of this dread disease.
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