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)
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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.
‘AIDS changed everything’
The global goal of getting 15 million people on life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has been met nine months early, the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) announced today.
Guidelines: National HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) Policy Guidelines 2015
Released in May 2015, the 52-page guidelines covers subjects like human rights, informed consent as well as self testing.
Fears of violence threaten Free State health hearing
Security guards escorted several audience members out of a civil society-organised commission into the Free State health system as fears mounted that tensions in the room could lead to violence.
Safer loos for Limpopo school
Teachers and children are celebrating new, safer toilets at one Limpopo school as the province slowly revamps school sanitation following the horrific pit latrine drowning of 6-year-old Michael Komape.
The call unanswered: Emergency services ‘non-existent’ in E.Cape communities
Pensioners living in rural Eastern Cape villages say they have never seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly combination of poor management and budget shortfalls keeps ambulances out of rural communities.
Implant spices up Mpumalanga mum’s bedroom
For Pretty Nhlabathi, switching to government’s new birth control implant spiced up life in the bedroom – and gave her a choice about baby number four.
North West school shortage fuels dodgy buses
North West bus driver Johannes Mpofu Ngwanathota says he fears for the safety of the more than 200 young learners he transports daily in a school bus meant for only half that load. He blames not only the bus owner, but a lack of schools in the rural North West community.
Too few know gold’s heavy price
In the land of gold, too few know gold’s deadly price as civil society groups embark on silicosis awareness campaign,
Guidelines: National Consolidated Guidelines for PMTCT and the Management of HIV in Children, Adolescents and Adults
Released in April 2015, the 136-page guidelines introduce important changes in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission as well as the treatment of children and adolescents.