A young motivational speaker, who was given a month to live and was later declared dead on the operating table due to a heart condition, has written a book Miracle Girl about her journey of survival and overcoming the odds.
In a bid to bring dignity to vulnerable women, a Limpopo woman is running a sanitary towel and toiletry donation initiative to improve the lives of those in need.
Given the nutritional value and importance of breastmilk, several mothers from Limpopo have spoken out in support of breastmilk donation to infants whose mothers are unable to breastfeed them.
Pamela Madonsela is a mom of two and has been exclusively breastfeeding for 15 months and counting. She shares her journey with Health-e News.
Two Non-Profit Organisations who have been collecting and donating infant formula to mothers who were left vulnerable by the violent unrest and looting sprees that took place in KwaZulu-Natal last month, have slammed the government's handling of the crisis with thousands of families needing food for their babies.
With the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week in August, South African mothers are encouraged to donate their breastmilk to others, as it is a key intervention that can save the lives of at-risk low birth-weight infants.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on pharmacies across the country in the face of a contraceptives shortage which has plagued parts of South Africa for almost 18 months and counting.
Women in Limpopo are desperate to get their hands on two types of injectable contraceptives which have been in short supply for over a month. One patient has deemed the situation a ‘disaster’ which the provincial department of health reckons will be.
Life as we once knew it changed forever last March as COVID-19 kicked in. Â Working from home, virtual meetings and home schooling soon became a norm for mothers already carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders trying to cope with motherhood during lockdown.
Studies show that the dapivirine vaginal ring offers new hope as an additional HIV prevention option for young women in Africa, lowering the health risk factors associated with HIV infections.
This Limpopo woman was fighting breast cancer when she was diagnosed with COVID-19. Ntsako Manganyi’s treatment was already disrupted by the pandemic’s restrictions.
A breast-cancer survivor from a rural Limpopo village shares how understanding the disease helped her beat it. Breast cancer has now overtaken lung cancer as the world most-diagnosed cancer, but survival rates are low in low-income countries.
Labour and the first few weeks of a baby’s life are already a time of great vulnerability. For mothers who gave birth during the Covid-19 pandemic, this time was even more challenging.
Some rituals can harm a woman's feeling of self worth as pregnancies past the 42 week date and families seek solutions.
A specialist skills transfer programme is helping health care workers in rural and district hospitals prevent maternal mortality in Limpopo.
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