African Stillbirth Tragedy – More Than 160 Years to Catch Up
It will take 160 years before a baby in Africa has as much chance of being born alive as a baby in a high-income country,...
Table Mountain Turns Blue for International Childhood Cancer Day
In honour of International Childhood Cancer Day 2016, Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain - one of the Seven Wonders of the World - was lit up in...
First Case of Zika Virus in South Africa – No Cause...
The National Department of Health (South Africa) says although South Africa has recorded its first case of someone infected with the Zika virus, there is...
Ramaphosa Launches National Sex Worker HIV Plan to “Fight the Scourge...
JOHANNESBURG - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says the newly launched National Sex Worker HIV Plan is about citizens’ rights and affirming the equal worth...
Kidney and Kindness from Expat in Canada – “She Could Save...
Proving old friendships never die, a South African expat living in Canada has offered her kidney to her former schoolmate in Johannesburg, whom she...
South Africa’s Covid-19 Cases Rise to 17,200
South Africa’s COVID-19 cases rose to 17 200, with the Northern Cape which has the least number of infections in the country, recording its...
Covid-19: Making Sense of ‘R’ in Explaining the Course of the...
R0 is on everyone’s lips these days, and it is a critical measure of the epidemic that guides predictions and policies. Yet how R...
Charlize Theron’s Impassioned Speech on Aids: “It’s Time We Face the...
South African actress Charlize Theron gave an impassioned speech at the opening ceremony of the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, calling out racism as an...
Pandemic’s Lessons for South Africa’s Universal Health Care Plans
The National Health Insurance (NHI) has become an idealistic concept known as “imaginary.” It’s become the idea onto which all South Africa’s aspirations for...
South African Dad Reaches Out to Public to Help Save Baby...
A South African family is reaching out to the public for a living donor to help save the life of their 7-month-old baby daughter, Divya...
