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).
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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.
Why we need tougher anti-tobacco laws
Young South Africans continue to light up but proposed legislation aims to increase the number of people who turn their backs on tobacco products writes SAVERA KALIDEEN.
SA negotiates cheaper TB drug for entire world
The entire world will benefit from a price cut of a TB wonder drug, following successful negotiations between South Africa and pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson.
Prince Harry and Elton John target men
AMSTERDAM - Prince Harry and Elton John on Tuesday launched a $1,2-billion new initiative called MenStar, aimed at reducing HIV in men at the International AIDS Conference.
Charlize says HIV driven by exclusion of groups
AMSTERDAM: The ongoing spread of HIV is directly linked to the inferior status of girls and women globally, Academy Award winning actress Charlize Theron told the International AIDS Conference today (24 July).
Delegates walk out of AIDS conference opening
Hundreds of delegates walked out of the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last night in protest when UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe took the stage.
AIDS 2018: Focus on funds, rights and sex workers
The criminalisation of sex workers, injecting drug users and gay men in many countries battling to overcome HIV are key focuses of the International AIDS conference, which opens in Amsterdam tonight (23 July).