Study: National Student Sexual Health HIV Knowledge, Attitude & Behaviour Survey
The recently released study by the Networking HIV/AIDS Community of South Africa surveyed students on 14 campuses.
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Many can’t afford a healthy diet
The Heart and Stroke Foundation has urged South Africans to check their blood pressure readings and follow a healthy diet – but poverty and the high food prices put a healthy diet out of reach of many people in the country.
Food activists threaten to boycott business, media
Representatives from more than 20 organisations including farmers’ cooperatives, waste pickers associations and unions recently marched to Times Media Group and Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) offices to protest fast food advertising and high food prices.
SA hosts world’s first study into better XDR-TB treatment
South African scientists are spearheading the world’s first trial into shorter and better treatment for tuberculosis (XDR-TB), which kills about half of all those diagnosed with the condition in South Africa.
Policy: Basic Education draft policy on HIV, STIs and TB
The Department of Basic Education is inviting public comment on the draft strategy on HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections until 26 May.
Dieticians warn against Banting for baby
Parents raising children on the low carbohydrate, high fat Banting diet may be exposing kids to health risks, including nutritional deficiencies, gall bladder problems, kidney stones and even heart problems.
Guidelines: Primary Care 101
The National Department of Health guidelines outline care for adults living with conditions like HIV, diabetes and mental health within primary health care.
Pneumococcal vaccine cuts hospitalisations by 70 percent
New data shows that South Africa's expensive pneumococcal vaccine roll out has cut childhood hospitalisations due to meningitis, pneumonia and rotavirus by about 70 percent in just five years, according to Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
Department of Health announces new youth health app
The Department of Health is launching a new, cell phone app to take health messaging to the country’s young people – and asking youth to help.
Study unearths high rates of violence against gay, bi-sexual students
More than one in ten gay or bisexual male students report that they have been the target of campus violence because of their sexual orientation, according to the first national survey of sexual orientation and HIV risk on South African campuses released yesterday.
Tshwane to promote food gardens
The City of Tshwane has begun providing small farmer cooperatives with inputs and training in an effort to promote food gardens and combat hunger.
Guide: Sex Workers & Sex in South Africa – A guide for journalists
Produced by Cape Town’s Women’s Legal Centre, the Sisonke sex worker movement and others, the guide is aimed at promoting response reporting on sex work.
Antidote to poor health services?
Horror stories about public health facilities have become common, but a new entity, the Office of Health Standards Compliance, has been set up to monitor standards and it has the legal muscle to force failing institutions to improve.
Report: Evaluation of Nutritional Interventions for Children from Conception to Age 5
Released on 28 April, this 49-page summary report evaluates 18 government nutrition interventions with the aim of improving implementation.
Natalspruit Hospital battles cancer screening backlog
East Rand women may be waiting months for life-saving cervical cancer screenings as the new Natalspruit Hospital battles a back log of screenings dating back to July 2014.