The Eastern Cape, following national lockdown regulations, has suspended traditional initiation schools which means the cultural transition into manhood is deferred for ‘desperate boys’.
“I feel worried and scared. Most of the time I wonder what will happen if I get infected with Covid-19 and get not cured, what will happen to my child?” says a pregnant Pontsho Moloi.
Giving birth is a life-changing process and giving birth during an unprecedented global health pandemic is even more so. Speaking to Health-e News, new mothers share their experiences with the health system during lockdown.
Despite the potential Covid-19 related dangers of leaving one’s home to go shopping, many parents bring their children along because they have no other choice.
Public health authorities and blood services are concerned with decreasing blood donations, which will have adverse effects on medical services that require transfusions.
Activists are calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), governments, and scientists to start a collaborative effort towards developing a Coronavirus (Covid-19) prevention pill, according to a new report.
Besides needing more protective equipment and resources such as sanitiser, traditional healers in the North West believe that their trade isn’t taken seriously by the government, and that they’re ‘left out’.
Some activists believe that changing the messaging around internal condoms will encourage more women using them as ‘cool sexual devices’.
After observing a strict two-week quarantine, the Cuban cohort of doctors and medical health professionals are ready for deployment across the province.
People world over need to change their lifestyles and adapt their behaviour to live in a very different world compared to before the Covid-19 outbreak, experts agree. Writes Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla.
Although the ‘mouth, eyes and ears of the vulnerable and the defenceless’ nurses struggle with dangerous understaffing, equipment and medicine shortages and meagre salaries.
Whilst global and national attention is focussed on one respiratory illness – Covid-19 – tuberculosis (TB) treatment and testing is falling to the wayside. Some health professionals say that TB testing needs to be linked to Covid-19 testing to remedy this.
A police woman from Bethlehem has tested positive for Covid-19, and community members have been advised to ramp up their sanitising practices and continue to follow lockdown regulations.
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all spheres of life – mental health and wellness included.
With shared ablution facilities and no running water, Marikana and Nkandla informal settlements in Gauteng pose a high risk of Covid-19 infection, says Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, Agriculture and Environment.
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