News South Africa Health: Mnangangwa Speaks on VP Chiwenga's Health
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that his deputy Constantino Chiwenga is receiving medical treatment in a South African hospital and that his condition is steadily improving. Chiwenga has in recent months been in and out of hospital over an undisclosed ailment that has seen him travel to India and South Africa.
News South Africa Health: Zimbabwe: VP Chiwenga in Hospital in South Africa
Umwell Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is back in a South African hospital, a country he was hounded from by South Africa based Zimbabweans who felt it was rather cheeky of a man who has presided over dysfunctional health systems at home to abandon the same for better managed health facilities elsewhere.
News South Africa Health: War-weakened South Sudan tries to prepare for Ebola
Health workers in South Sudan’s border towns are going door-to-door trying to inform people, with support from WHO and people who responded to West Africa’s devastating outbreak in 2014-2016 that ...
News South Africa Health: South Africa: Kwazulu Natal - MSF Concerned About the Minimal Decline in Mortality Due to AIDS-Related Diseases Since 2014
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is concerned about the minimal decline in mortality due to AIDS-related diseases since 2014 despite welcoming the progress made in the HIV fight especially with communities at the centre.
News South Africa Health: Intensive Anti-H.I.V. Efforts Meet With Mixed Success in Africa
A 30 percent reduction in incidence is pretty dramatic.” Image Two community health workers went house to house in a community in Cape Town, South Africa, testing residents for H.I.V.CreditKim Cloete ...
News South Africa Health: Can free schools in South Africa reduce HIV risk?
free meals and text books appear important in promoting mental health among teenage girls in South Africa – and, in turn, reducing risky sexual behaviour. ...
News South Africa Health: South Africa: Promises, Promises - Has Funding Finally Run Dry for SA's Rape Crisis Centres?
South Africa's HIV strategy commits the country to an ambitious target of testing 10-million people each year for HIV - it's part of the national health department's plan to test 90% of people for ...
News South Africa Health: Cannabis Market To Grow As Regulation Of CBD In South Africa Changes
Since the Constitutional Court in September 2018 effectively decriminalised the possession, use and cultivation of cannabis in private dwellings in South Africa, there has been a rapid surge of CBD-containing products on the South African market.
News South Africa Health: South Africa: Adherence Is Delaying HIV Elimination Targets. What's Needed to Break the Cycle
Analysis - As 2020 draws closer, the deadline to end AIDS by 2030 looms large. The aim is to achieve the ambitious targets of "90-90-90". That is, 90% of people living with HIV knowing their status; 90% of all those with HIV on antiretroviral therapy; and 90% of those on antiretroviral therapy with no HIV in their bloodstream.
News South Africa Health: The Week In Cannabis: Gillibrand's Legalization Plan, Analyst Ratings, South Africa's CBD Store, And Some Legal News
Kirsten Gillibrandunveiled a cannabis legalization plan that includes expungement and social equity measures; and South Africa got its first CBD store ... it acquired medical cannabis company Medcann ...
News South Africa Health: Vaping Regulation in South Africa No Longer a Pipe Dream
Tobacco researcher Catherine Egbe, one of several top health experts who sat down to discuss the safety of vaping, has said that e-cigarettes are not the solution to nicotine addiction and that they were designed to evade tobacco control laws. This comes after the Vapour Products Association publicly asserted that e-cigarettes are 95% safer than conventional cigarettes and may even help traditional smokers to quit. South Africa's new tobacco control Bill, which was published in July 2018, proposes regulations for e-cigarettes as harsh as those for their traditional cigarette counterparts.
News South Africa Health: Climate change and health in small island developing States — Regional Plan of Action for SIDS in the African and South East Asian Regions
The Conference was held in Mauritius, specifically for SIDS from Africa and South East Asia Region, on 21-22 March 2018. Participants included Ministers of Health and Ministers of Environment and ...
News South Africa Health: South Africa: Vaccinate your child today
As the country commemorates African Vaccination Week, the South African Medical Association (SAMA ... has been working in public-private partnerships such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), ...
News South Africa Health: South Africa: Smoke, Spies, and Lies - Big Tobacco Gatecrashes Public Health Lobby Meeting
South Africa's top public health experts sat down to discuss the safety of e-cigarettes. The verdict? Stay away. The woman picks up her black leather briefcase, and with her head high, marches out ...
News South Africa Health: Intervention increases healthy behavior among South African adolescents
The situation is particularly grim in South Africa, where citizens are just as ... and consisted of interactive lessons and games, including "Health Jeopardy." The researchers also developed ...
