Ramaphosa commits to funding rape counselling services
Could this be the end of government’s “one stop” centres’ financial woes?
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#GBVSummit: This is how SA will tackle gender-based violence
After two days of deliberating on gender-based violence and femicide, government and civil society will make recommendations that outline on how to tackle the abuse against women, gender non-conforming people and children.
Joburg girl battles TB stigma on the global stage
THE HAGUE: During the launch of a new book which tells the story about their tuberculosis (TB) journey, Janet, and her nine-year-old daughter Angelina, spoke to Health-e News from the Netherlands about the stigma they faced in a local pre-school.
Oblivious to the killer within
Hypertension is South Africa’s biggest epidemic. But most people don’t know they have high blood pressure, and few of those on treatment have their blood pressure under control – partly because the medical profession doesn’t know what drugs work for Africans.
Poo testing the new breakthrough in child TB
A much simpler test to detect tuberculosis (TB) in children, using a stool sample instead of sputum, could save thousands of lives.
Bedaquiline price protests hit World Lung Conference launch
THE HAGUE – As the opening ceremony of the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health kicked off in the Netherlands last night, protesting activists demanded Johnson & Johnson (J&J) slash its price for the blockbuster tuberculosis (TB) drug, bedaquiline.
Mboweni zero rates and allocates funds for free sanitary pads
Three provinces will be the testing grounds for the Department of Women’s free sanitary pads policy.
New TB vaccine in sight
THE HAGUE - It took 100 years but a new vaccine for the world’s top infectious disease killer, tuberculosis (TB), is in sight.
Private hospitals face nursing malpractice havoc
Nurses’ failure to follow guidelines and poor monitoring of patients is an increasing liability at private hospitals.
Cultural reasons hamper skin donation drive
South Africa has a dire shortage of skin to treat burn victims and the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Centre for Tissue Engineering and the Organ Donor Foundation have issued an urgent plea for more people to become skin and organ donors.
Healthy lunch boxes part of fight against obesity
The number of South African children who are overweight or obesity is on the increase. Professor Salome Kruger of the Nutrition Centre of Excellence at the University of North West believes work needs to be done to combat this problem in school-going children.
Coca-Cola called out for advertising to kids at protest
Coca-Cola was called on to keep its promise to remove its advertising in schools during a picket at the beverage manufacturer’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Tuesday [October 2016].
Thousands of disabled youth not in school
There are more than 500 000 children with disabilities who are not attending school - this is according to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Obesity: is it you or ‘the system’?
South Africans are getting fatter every year. Is it because we lack self-control or is it because big food companies are ruthlessly targeting this country? Kerry Cullinan, Amy Green and Pontsho Pilane report.
Our obesity epidemic is not a personal choice
The pandemic of obesity in South Africa is a result of our ‘Americanised’ food environment
and the responsibility should be shifted from individuals to government policies, according
to experts.