South Africa: Can Digital Adherence Technologies Help With Adherence to HIV Medicines?
[spotlight] Around 7.8 million people were living with HIV in South Africa in 2022, of which 5.7 million were taking antiretroviral treatment. People living with HIV who take antiretroviral treatment typically have a normal life expectancy, provided they keep taking the treatment. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - May 8, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: The Promise of a Financial Boost for TB Programmes - Where to From Here?
[spotlight] South Africa's new roadmap to tackle HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections - the National Strategic Plan - lays out an ambitious list of priority actions that need to be undertaken over the next five years. The plan, released on World TB Day on 24 March, has been lauded for its multisectoral approach, which places a significant emphasis on the involvement of the community. It has been welcomed by several healthcare advocates. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - May 8, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: President Wants Nothing But Victory for Ruling Party in 2024 - South African News Briefs - May 8, 2023
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 8, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Twenty-Nine Pregnant Women Evacuated From Overwhelmed Hospital in Nelson Mandela Bay
[Daily Maverick] The women had to be evacuated from Nelson Mandela Bay's specialist maternity unit at Dora Nginza Hospital as medical teams battled severe overcrowding and rolling blackouts. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 8, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa State-Owned Insurer Won ’t Pay Claims for Grid Collapse
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can a Pledge to End TB Stick This Time Around?
In India, a doctor checks a patient’s x-ray for lung damage, which may indicate tuberculosis. Credit: ILO/Vijay Kuty
On May 8, there will be an interactive multistakeholder hearing at the UN as part of the preparatory process toward High-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis. The event will be broadcast live on UN Web TV.
Meanwhile, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has unveiled plans to speed up the licensing and use of effective novel vaccines against tuberculosis (TB), the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 and the 13th leading cause o...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Morounfolu Olugbosi Tags: Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Rampant Corruption at Energy Provider Drags Down South Africa
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: Mental Health - Almost Half of Johannesburg Students in New Study Screened Positive for Probable Depression
[The Conversation Africa] Depression is a mental health disorder characterised by a persistently low mood or loss of interest in activities. It causes significant impairment in daily life. Possible causes include a combination of biological, psychological and social sources of distress. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 7, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Covid-19 Global Health Emergency Over, but Pandemic Not Over - Health
[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Health says it has noted an announcement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 7, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa ’s Ramaphosa Sends Army to Protect Eskom Stations
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: 'That Iron Suitcase Saved My Life' - Retired Nurse Reflects On 37 Years of Service
[spotlight] When Boitumelo Motsei became a nurse, she didn't expect that she would also have to learn to ride a bicycle or drive a donkey cart. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 5, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Analysis - 21 Months Later, What Progress Has Wagner Made in the Eastern Cape?
[spotlight] For years, the Eastern Cape Department of Health has made the headlines, often for the wrong reasons. From rat-infested hospitals and newborn babies dying in overcrowded and understaffed wards to scooter ambulances that later proved to be unsafe and procured irregularly to a more recent public outcry over the lack of surgical consumables at Livingstone Hospital. Such challenges seem to have been on rinse and repeat for decades. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 5, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: In-Depth - SA's Obesity Problem and the Promise of New Weight Loss Medicines
[spotlight] Obesity is a complicated public health issue that can be devastating on both the societal and the individual level. On one hand, it costs our economy millions and is a strain on our under-resourced health system. On the other hand, it is a psychological and physical burden to those who are acutely affected - individuals who inevitably face stigma at every turn, with undeserved overlays of blame and shame. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 5, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Legitimizing military action through statistics and discourse in the 2014 IDF assault on Gaza - Tasseron M, Lawson BT.
This article analyses the way statistics were used by select British and South African news outlets in the coverage of the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza. Taking asymmetrical warfare as their primary theoretical framework, we used a content analysis and inte... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news
Intimate partner violence victimization during pregnancy increases risk of postpartum depression among urban adolescent mothers in South Africa - Gebrekristos LT, Groves AK, McNaughton Reyes L, Moodley D, Beksinska M, Maman S.
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that 38.8% of mothers develop postpartum depression (PPD) in South Africa. While empirical evidence documents an association between intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in pregnancy and PPD among adult women, the assoc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
