Matrics report skin bleaching ahead of dance
From picking the dress to negotiating curfew, a lot goes into the perfect matric dance but some teens may be taking dangerous risks in an effort to look "their best" for the big night.
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New high tech machine offers relief for fibroid sufferers
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has charted another first for Africa as the hospital welcomes a new state-of-the-art machine that will allow women to be treated for fibroids without surgery. The machine has been billed as the first of its kind in Africa.
Policy: National Strategic Plan for a Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal, Child Mortality in Africa (2013)
This 18-page document outlines South African strategies to reduce maternal and child deaths in the country as part of the African Union’s Campaign for the Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa (CARMMA).
Policy: The National Health Promotion Policy and Strategy 2015 – 2019
This 46-page document aims to guide the implementation of health promotion programmes in South Africa.
Getting to zero preventable child deaths is possible
News child mortality data shows East and southern Africa are making the fastest progress on reducing child deaths - and this bodes well as the world ushers in new development goals, write UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and southern Africa Leila Gharagozloo-Pakkala and Save the Children East Africa Director David Wright.
Mothers, children collateral damage in immigration clampdown
In South Africa, all uninsured pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under six are entitled to free health care. But amid confusing provinicial policies, some health care workers may have unwittingly become a law unto themselves with dire consequence for immigrants and their children.
Six steps to take if you have been raped
As Women's Month winds to an end, Rape Crisis gives advice for rape survivors.
Nurse combines passion for mums with business know-how
Nurse Precious Mashupi has gone from consulting at her local clinic to running her own business in a bid that she hopes will help increase access to women’s health services in Klerksdorp.
Booklet: The Road to Recovery – You and Rape
This Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust booklet provides information for rape survivors including how to report a rape, what to do medically after an assault and how to report poor treatment by the police.
Self-acceptance frees young lesbian
After years of mental distress from trying to deny her sexuality and hide it from her family, Noxolo Nxumalo has accepted that she loves women.
Hospitals hold babies ransom, say mothers
Mothers allege some Gauteng hospitals are withholding newborn babies from immigrant mums until they can pay for delivering at public hospitals. Others say health care workers have threatened not to treat children unless bills are paid in full.
from foreign mums until bills for delivering at public hospitals are paid.
Afrikaners may be more likely to carry breast cancer gene
New research has shown that Afrikaans South Africans may be more likely to carry the breast cancer gene that led recently led actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy.
Khayelitsha man makes menstruation his business
No girl should have to miss school because of her period, says Khayelitsha resident Karabo Monatisi who has started distributing sanitary pads to schoolgirls in the township.
Implant spices up Mpumalanga mum’s bedroom
For Pretty Nhlabathi, switching to government’s new birth control implant spiced up life in the bedroom – and gave her a choice about baby number four.
‘I didn’t even know I was pregnant’
Nokuthula Dlamini, 25, from Bethlehem, Free State got the surprise of her life when she was rushed to hospital with abdominal pains and only to discover that she was pregnant and in labour.