Tips for Whistleblowers
WATCH: Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga, the head of the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), shares tips on whistleblowing for healthcare workers.
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Land equality
WATCH: how dignity is being restored to previously-evicted farm workers in the Free State
Rolling with the punches
WATCH: how boxing empowers Johannesburg's under-resourced youth
Stroke of depression in South Africa
Ten South Africans suffer a stroke every hour. Yet many blame the affliction on witchcraft and isolate stroke survivors – who are already battling because of the dire shortage of rehabilitation facilities.
NCDs cause 70 percent of deaths
Seven out of 10 deaths worldwide were caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in 2016, particularly cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes.
How much sugar is in your drink?
Watch this demonstration to find out how much sugar you are consuming unknowingly when drinking your favourite sugary drink.
Award for HEALA advocate
Tracey Malawana, the founder of the Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA), was last night presented with the 2018 PHILA Emerging Practitioner Award by the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA).
Lack of exercise is threatening health
A quarter of the world’s adults are doing too little exercise, putting them at risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, and some cancers – and there has been no improvement over the past 15 years.
Plans underway to help nourish SA’s hungry children
Heavily overweight or badly undernourished – a large number of South Africans fall into the categories of people suffering over- and under-nutrition.
Hypertension? Drink Blackjack Tea
WATCH: how a simple weed can help lower your high blood pressure levels.
What is our cultural food?
WATCH: Vox pops looking at the foods South Africans define as cultural.
New TB trial aims to slash treatment time for MDR
A new drug trial aimed at finding faster, more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis  was launched this week in Georgia.
Rural students lead initiative to clean the environment
LIMPOPO - After realising that local rivers in the Vhembe district have been polluted by uninformed villagers who don’t understand the importance of the clean environment to their health, young students have made it their priority to clean and educate people about health benefits of clean environment.
‘Don’t humiliate me’ says brave teen
NORTHERN CAPE – Fourteen year old Dineo (*not her real name), born with HIV and a member of the Future Leaders movement, says she hates teachers using her as the example when discussing HIV positive people at school.
Rural young men use muti to treat STIs
EASTERN CAPE - Most young men in Flagstaff at Ingquza Hill believe that traditional medicine as is the best treatment for sexually transmitted infections.