Speaking to Health-e News, women share their first-hand experience about having babies with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). We also hear from a nurse, a shebeen owner, and the department of health.
Risks of undergoing traditional circumcision, despite health benefits, include injury to the penis, pain, bleeding, and infection.
“They can’t read, they can’t write, and actually they are in the wrong school,” says Angela Salter, founder of the Adonai Crisis Centre which looks after children whose parents abuse alcohol and drugs.
The efficacy and safety of expired medication is not guaranteed which pose a threat to the health of the pharmacy’s customers.
The family is seeking an appeal to find closure and fight for the rights of all learners in South Africa who are still forced to use pit toilets at their schools.
Many cancer patients in the province had no choice but to travel a long distance to Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Gauteng, about 300km away, to receive oncology treatment. This ends now.
African experts and activists are left disappointed by the updated recommendations and have labelled them rushed and unconcerned with women’s lives.
Could reviving the indigenous ways of preserving food for long periods of time reignite young people’s love for traditional food?
Learners from Rivoni School for the Blind have protested for better accommodation and classrooms for months. Now, they've taken matters into their own hands.
Many women with disabilities in rural areas have limited opportunities. But not if beauty queen, Lufuno Khakhu has her way.
The grieving families of David Sello’s victims feel vindicated that his licence is revoked, but says he still needs to face justice.
Government regulation into food labelling aims to empower South Africans to easily understand what is detrimental to their health.
After two Mpumalanga pupils died of suspected food poisoning last month the school nutrition programme in the province has been declared safe, but some parents are not satisfied.
Northdale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg is under scrutiny following cases of alleged staff negligence reported to the KwaZulu-Natal department of health.
South African activists are thrilled by the appointment of African feminist Winnie Byanyima to UNAIDS top spot, who is the first woman to hold the position in the history of the organisation.
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