More than plaster to fix rural healthcare
As the seasons change and summer becomes a distant memory, May elections creep closer. Campaign posters line the roadways and fight for space on telephone poles of every city and village.
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Easter: How much chocolate is too much?
It’s Easter time and children (and adults) are gearing up for an Easter egg hunt, but how much chocolate is too much and what constitutes a sugar binge versus a treat?
MSF: Secret medicine prices cost lives
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is calling upon governments to put an end to the secrecy that rules in the field of pharmaceutical products when they meet this week at the World Health Organisation Fair Pricing Forum to discuss access to essential medicines.
TB patients still shunned by families
Despite South Africa being the only country in the world to make a new TB drug available to all who have drug-resistant TB, many TB patients are still avoided by their families.
Drug-resistant TB hard to root out
WORLD TB DAY: Although South Africa has the highest per capita burden of drug-resistant TB in the world, there are many barriers to addressing this - as one patient found out when it took doctors two years to diagnose him.
Drug-resistant TB hard to root out
WORLD TB DAY: Although South Africa has the highest per capita burden of drug-resistant TB in the world, there are many barriers to addressing this - as one patient found out when it took doctors two years to diagnose him.
Eskom’s Suffocating Stranglehold
Eskom’s cluster of 12 coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga is the biggest source of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the world, according to environmental rights organisation Greenpeace.
Eskom’s Suffocating Stranglehold
Eskom’s cluster of 12 coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga is the biggest source of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the world, according to environmental rights organisation Greenpeace.
Top three parties’ position on sexual & reproductive justice
Do you know what your favourite political party’s stance is on sex work, gender-based violence and abortion?
Top three parties’ position on sexual & reproductive justice
Do you know what your favourite political party’s stance is on sex work, gender-based violence and abortion?
SA is not yet polio-free
South Africa is part of a ‘pariah group’ of countries not yet certified polio-free, thanks to weaknesses in our disease surveillance and vaccination programme. The Department of Health is determined to win back its certificate next month, and launched an immunisation coverage survey last week to investigate the nation’s vaccination rate.Â
Evicted: ‘The Red Ants broke into people’s shacks’
A few days before Christmas, while residents of a farm behind Cradlestone Mall were at work, the notorious Red Ants marched onto the land and tore down their homes.
Evicted: “The Red Ants broke into people’s shacks”
A few days before Christmas, while residents of a farm behind Cradlestone Mall were at work, the Red Ants marched onto the land and tore down their homes.
‘Soda taxes work’
Sugary drink consumption has been slashed by more than half, three years after the city of Berkeley introduced a levy on these products.
‘Soda taxes work’
Sugary drink consumption has been slashed by more than half, three years after the city of Berkeley introduced a levy on these products.