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Social workers can help children more effectively by assessing the needs of...
What do children need most? The answer often depends on a person’s relationship with the child.When people think about children outside their family and close friends, they commonly make basic needs...
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Kenya’s healthcare workers abuse a third of teen mums from informal...
Adolescent pregnancy is a global public health concern: in 2022, about 13% of girls and young women gave birth before the age of 18. Compared with women in their early 20s, adolescents are more...
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Neglected tropical diseases persist in the world’s poorest places: four reads...
It’s sobering to reflect that “neglected tropical diseases” are referred to as “neglected” because they persist in the poorest, most marginalised communities even after being wiped out in more...
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Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria: here’s how
Cape Verde has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization. The archipelago to the west of Senegal consists of 10 islands, and has a population of over 500,000 people. It is the third...
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Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer...
In 1992 a group of academics from the University of the Witwatersrand introduced a health and socio-demographic surveillance system in remote, rural South Africa to track and understand health and...
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Money and ageing: South African study shows cash grants help people live...
Nearly half of South Africa’s 60 million people receive social grants, ranging from child support to pensions. The grants are designed to provide financial assistance to people living in poverty.The...
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Medicinal plants help keep children healthy in South Africa: 61 species were...
In 2021, almost 33 of every 1,000 South African children under five years old died. This under-five mortality rate is far worse than in similar middle-income countries such as Brazil (14.4 per 1,000...
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HIV among older South Africans in rural areas: big study shows there’s a...
South Africa continues to have a high prevalence of HIV among all age groups. About 8.2 million people or 13.7% of the population live with HIV, one of the highest rates in the world. The country also...
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Antibiotic use on Kenya’s dairy farms is putting consumers and animals at risk
Farmers often use antibiotics to keep their livestock healthy. They’re sometimes used as “quick fixes”, to avoid more costly management measures like regular disinfection, waste management, routine...
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80% of premature baby deaths happen in poorer countries. Five simple measures...
Worldwide in 2020 a baby died every 40 seconds because of complications of prematurity. Preterm birth is the leading cause of death among children under 5 years old. The burden of preterm birth is...
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Pregnant women in South Africa should be offered social grants – it’ll save...
A baby’s first 1,000 days, from the time of conception until their second birthday, is a crucial window of opportunity to optimise their potential– through healthy nutrition for the mother during...
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Kids are exposed to violent war images: how you can protect them
In today’s screen-filled world, many children and teens have nearly continuous access to media. Estimates from the United States suggest that school-age children spend four to six hours per day...
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Social workers can help children more effectively by assessing the needs of...
What do children need most? The answer often depends on a person’s relationship with the child.When people think about children outside their family and close friends, they commonly make basic needs...
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What’s behind the worldwide shortage of cholera vaccines? For starters,...
In February 2024 the World Health Organization announced southern Africa was suffering the deadliest regional outbreak of cholera in at least a decade. At the epicentre of the disaster were Malawi,...
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Why do we usually sleep at night? What happens when we don’t sleep? Expert...
Sleep is as essential to our health as food and water. It is important to a number of brain functions, including how nerve cells communicate with each other. We sleep for a third of our lives and there...
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Almost 50% of adult South Africans are overweight or obese. Poverty and poor...
Malnutrition, in all its forms, includes undernutrition (wasting, stunting, underweight), inadequate vitamins or minerals, overweight and obesity. South Africa has undergone a nutritional transition...
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Dehydration: how it happens, what to watch out for, what steps to take
Dehydration is a big issue during unusually hot weather and outbreaks of diseases such as cholera that lead to life-threatening diarrhoea. Anastasia Ugwuanyi is a family physician and clinical educator...
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Medical science has made great strides in fighting TB, but reducing poverty...
Every year, 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis. Even though the disease is both preventable and curable, it kills 1.5 million people each year, making it the world’s deadliest infectious...
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Zulu culture and sexual orientation: South African study reveals the health...
Same-sex relationships are legal in South Africa and protected by the constitution. Unfair discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is against the law. But in practice many cultures don’t...
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Hazardous mould contaminates many food staples – what you should know about...
Mycotoxins are substances produced by mould that poison food. They are harmful to humans and animals when consumed. According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), about 25% of the world’s...
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