World Heart Day, which happens every year on 29 September, will see iconic landmarks turned red in honour of the occasion with Table Mountain and the Wheel at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town being lit up on Friday night.
NORTHERN CAPE - As continuing efforts to combat HIV infections in South Africa target mostly young people, older people say they are feeling sidelined and neglected.
Government and the private health sector need to stop talking about universal access to healthcare and start working on delivering it.
For the first time in world history, there are more obese than underweight people. Both are symptoms of malnutrition, part of a global food system geared towards profits. Activists want a radical shift in the entire food system, including a total ban on junk food advertising. Is it possible and will it make a difference?
Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health, says a landmark pricing deal announced by UNAids will accelerate the availability of the first affordable, generic, single-pill HIV treatment.
Revelations that Jeppe Clinic – closed down by the Gauteng Health Department in April for urgent renovations – may not be ready to re-open on October 1 have sparked high level action.
When Maria terminated her pregnancy in 2007 she had no idea how it would continue to haunt her.
Activists warn against the normalisation of the sugar daddy or blesser culture, where girls are lured into sex in exchange for material goods, bringing them closer to trafficking.
LIMPOPO - Pastor Confidence Monyela (32), accused of raping young girls in one-on-one prayer sessions, was granted R12 000 bail by the Lenyenye Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
There is little support for young, vulnerable pregnant women – and this is fuelling the high number of abandoned and orphaned babies. HEALTH-E’s UFRIEDA HO reports.
The Bomme Ke Nako food garden project is situated 55 kilometres outside Kuruman in a village called Vergenoeg.
The latest Global Burden of Disease study data shows that South Africa continues to battle with HIV, road injuries and violence as well as diseases related to obesity.
Today marks World Lymphoma Day and it is for the first time that it will be a globally-branded event launched by Campaign for Cancer
Telephone lines to the Gauteng Health Department’s Head Office have been cut because Telkom has not been paid.
Global control of blood pressure, salt reduction and artificial trans fats elimination could save 100 million lives.
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