BLOG: An out-of-body experience
Our rural doctor takes a break from blogging about banting to relive the heartache and trauma of coming face-to-face with infant mortality in rural South Africa.
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Report: The Lancet’s Every Newborn series
Released by the medical journal, The Lancet, the "Every Newborn" series examines the largest risks to mothers and newborns across the world - and what could be done to save 3 million lives annually.
New birth control hits mark with Mpumalanga women
South Africa’s first under-the-skin birth control implant is leading some Mpumalanga women to trade traditional birth control shots for the three-year implants.
Mothers Day treat for pregnant women
Starting from Mothers Day on 11 May, pregnant women in the Western Cape are being given a little book to answer all their questions thanks to the provincial department of health and the Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP). The booklet…
Anonymous messages spread vaccine myths
North West parents have allegedly received anonymous messages warning them not to vaccinate their daughters against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Health officials have once again assured the public of the vaccine’s safety.
Report: Eradicating informal settlements by 2014 – A goal deferred
The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) at Rhodes Univeristy has released an analysis of national and provincial efforts to improve access to housing, focusing on the Eastern Cape.
Country charts first decline in maternal mortality
Deaths among pregnant women and new mothers may finally be falling in South Africa, but the proportion of these deaths due to an age-old disease may be rising, say experts.
Guidelines: National contraception, fertility planning policy
In February 2014, South Africa began rolling out its latest contraception and family planning guidelines.
Guidelines: Guidance for educators on national HPV campaign
As part of a recently introduced national campaign, the departments of health and basic education have released the following two-page document for educators.
Hair-straightening products could pose serious health risk – UCT study
PRESS RELEASE: Dangerous concentrations of formaldehyde found in seven brands sold in SA.
Teenage Pregnancy: Just a little bit of fun?
Dineo Hlako is 19 years old and in matric. She is in her third trimester of her pregnancy and in the midst of writing her final matric exams. She never planned to fall pregnant while she was in school but…
Fighting ‘sugar daddies’ – or raising ‘sugar’ girls?
Nonhlanhla Matsunyane was in Grade 11 when a man 20 years older than her followed her to school one day. Within months, the man was providing her struggling family with groceries and money – and she was providing him with…
HIV goes up, condom use goes down
South Africa’s latest HIV survey finds boys having sex earlier, plummeting condom use and that unmarried couples living together are more at risk of HIV than married or single people.
Webcast: Age-disparate relationships & HIV incidence amongst rural South African women
Watch and listen to the controversial presentation by the Africa Centre's Guy Harling that questions the relationship between sugar daddies and HIV risk in rural communities.
Abandoned baby recovers in Kuruman Hospital
HIV, post-natal depression and unemployment are just some of the reasons why mums abandon babies. In Kuruman, Northern Cape, one baby narrowly escaped with her life after being left to die.