Covid-19 and women’s invisible work
As the pandemic continues spread, highlighting systemic inequalities across the world, women are calling on governments to include them in decision-making for the future.
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Frustrated initiates ‘humiliated’ by suspended initiation schools
The Eastern Cape, following national lockdown regulations, has suspended traditional initiation schools which means the cultural transition into manhood is deferred for ‘desperate boys’.
The terror of being pregnant in the time of Covid-19
“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.
Motherhood woes during Covid-19
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.
Keep kids at home — if you can
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.
Blood shortage fears as lockdown continues
Public health authorities and blood services are concerned with decreasing blood donations, which will have adverse effects on medical services that require transfusions.
Exploring Coronavirus treatment other than a vaccine
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.
North West traditional healers demand protective wear
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’.
Maximising pleasure with new look Cupid condom
Some activists believe that changing the messaging around internal condoms will encourage more women using them as ‘cool sexual devices’.
Cuban doctors on call in the North West
After observing a strict two-week quarantine, the Cuban cohort of doctors and medical health professionals are ready for deployment across the province.
Virus is here to stay: Citizen responsibility to reduce transmission of Covid-19
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.
Here’s what South African nurses want
Although the ‘mouth, eyes and ears of the vulnerable and the defenceless’ nurses struggle with dangerous understaffing, equipment and medicine shortages and meagre salaries.
More than six million new TB cases worldwide by 2025 warns report
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.
Bethlehem’s first Covid-19 case a ‘wake-up call’
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.
Protect your mind during lockdown
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all spheres of life – mental health and wellness included.