Organic farmer encourages youth to get into food gardening
“The health of the land is linked to people’s health and future.” This is Khaya Mposula’s ethos, an organic farmer in the Eastern Cape.
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Opinion: Empower Youth for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Women Deliver founder Jill Sheffield and Sonke Gender Justice Network’s Remmy Shawa write about South Africa’s role in empowering the world’s largest generation of young people.
Op-ed: AfroCentric’s latest numbers reveal SA’s youth is getting sicker
Ahmed Banderker, CEO of SA’s most diversified, black-owned health group AfroCentric, takes a look at the conditions plaguing our young people and what we can do about them.
On line for the youth Living with AIDS # 256
In times of trouble some of us find it much easier to speak to a total stranger for advice. Counsellors, in the form of psychologists, social workers and others, are often the strangers we confide in. In the area of HIV and AIDS, these professionals often play an invaluable role. Nditsheni Ratshitanga is a counsellor with the youth health awareness programme, loveLife.
Nyaope “zombies” plague small Free State town
Mild mannered youth turned knife-wielding “zombies” – it might seem like a scene out of a horror film but it is real for some residents living outside the small Free State town of Bethlehem as the picturesque dorpie is the latest to fall under the spell of South Africa’s cheap street drug nyaope.
NSP to strengthen prevention among youth Living with AIDS # 508
The new National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS, which comes into effect on April 1st, will prioritise young girls and women in its HIV prevention efforts. The Plan will also resuscitate the school-based HIV testing campaign, whose introduction fell flat on its face last year.
New ways to prevent HIV?
Projections in the Africa Journal of AIDS Research show that HIV incidence rates in the 15 to 49 years age group have decreased from 4.2 % in 1997 to 1.7 % in 2003. Health-e spoke to researchers who believe that new sexual practices among the youth are at the core of this change.
New health services a hit with Alex youth
The recent introduction of a youth-friendly service at Masakhane Clinic in Alexandra township has been heralded by many young people as a move that will encourage them to access public health care more often and easily.
New Groundbreakers help educate, develop youth
BETHLEHEM. - Lovelife, the HIV prevention initiative for young people, recently trained 85 new Community Groundbreakers for 2013 in the Free State. The training, held at the Thaba Nchu, Black Mountain Hotel in the Free State, began on 22 January and ended on 1 February.
New book warns youth against drugs
A young man who grew up poor in rural Limpopo has, by age 28, trained as a nurse, become a motivational speaker, joined a care group that has adopted 120 orphans and spearheaded mass donations of shoes to six rural schools.
Men, power & money key to women’s HIV risk, youth say
Young women make up about 25 percent of all new HIV infections in South Africa. This Women’s Month, we ask young women and men why they think young women are so vulnerable to the virus.
Mbeki’s speech ignores AIDSLiving with AIDS # 158
For the ANC three important events will mark this year: the third democratic national election, the tenth anniversary of democracy and the 60th anniversary of the ANC Youth League. But there is a fourth important event ' one that the ruling party's election manifesto failed to mention over the weekend ' and that is the AIDS treatment roll-out plan, expected to kick in later in the year. With this in mind, Health-e News takes a look at the President's election manifesto launch last Sunday.
Many miles for youth service
Ananelang Tumi Motumi (26), who has just returned from Amsterdam following a reward trip to the World AIDS Conference 2018, describes the experience as the best time of her life.
Making farming fashionable for health
An entrepreneurial Limpopo farmer has a fresh solution to many of South Africa’s problems: to instil a culture of eating fruit and vegetables, especially among youth in rural areas
Making farming fashionable for health
An entrepreneurial Limpopo farmer has a fresh solution to many of South Africa’s problems: to instil a culture of eating fruit and vegetables, especially among youth in rural areas