Millions go hungry, accountability and public participation needed
One in four people go hungry in South Africa every day, and the public needs to ensure that their right to access to food enshrined in the Constitution is realised.
Health
Read More » Millions go hungry, accountability and public participation needed
Rural Reflections: There is a problem
As public debate rages about whether there are or are not antiretroviral (ARV) stock outs in the county, our rural doctor and blogger reminds us what three letters and ARV stock outs really mean.
Paying people to prevent HIV?
Public interventions that pay people to adopt healthy habits have become increasingly popular over the past decade. Apparently, us humans are so slack that we need to be paid to do simple things that are good for us.
Limpopo village brings ubuntu to life
A tiny Limpopo village proves that ubuntu is not dead as they pull together to help a grandmother raise three children.
SA teas pack a cancer punch
Two distinctly South African teas have been fingered for their potential to treat two of the country’s biggest cancer killers.
Activists worldwide call for immediate HIV treatment
South Africa may join just ten countries in the world that provide antiretrovirals (ARVs) to people living with HIV upon diagnosis as new research spurs activists to demand immediate treatment for all people living with HIV.
Cancer cures in your kitchen cupboard?
Rooibos, honeybush and garlic may protect against cancer, which is set to increase massively in South Africa in the next 15 years
Self-acceptance frees young lesbian
After years of mental distress from trying to deny her sexuality and hide it from her family, Noxolo Nxumalo has accepted that she loves women.
Grant pay point security scrutinised following shoot out
A recent cash-in-transit heist at a grant pay point has led the Department of Social Development to relook pay point security nationwide.
World wastes almost half of all food produced
About 40 percent of the food produced globally is wasted while 795 million people go hungry, according to new research released yesterday (16 July)
Fact sheet: South Africa’s HIV programme by numbers
A new fact sheet details the achievements of South Africa's HIV programme, which initiated more than 600,000 people on antiretroviral treatment in 2014/15.
Hospitals hold babies ransom, say mothers
Mothers allege some Gauteng hospitals are withholding newborn babies from immigrant mums until they can pay for delivering at public hospitals. Others say health care workers have threatened not to treat children unless bills are paid in full.
from foreign mums until bills for delivering at public hospitals are paid.
The bald face of cancer
Men who go bald from the front are more likely to get prostate cancer, according to new research.
Afrikaners may be more likely to carry breast cancer gene
New research has shown that Afrikaans South Africans may be more likely to carry the breast cancer gene that led recently led actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy.
Load shedding, winter expected to fuel burn injuries
A new, viral social media campaign is encouraging South Africans to “burn for burns” as doctors warn that cold weather and load shedding are likely to prompt a spike in burn injuries this winter.