The International Potato Centre has been working with small commercial food processing companies in several African countries to introduce orange-fleshed sweet potatoes puree as a highly nutritious and cost-effective ingredient in the food industry...
South African healthcare workers were found to be at high risk of contracting hepatitis B, even though a vaccine can provide life-long immunity...
Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV (APHIV) had a fourfold increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease despite access to antiretroviral therapy (ART)...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of illness and death around the world. In 2019, 10-million people fell ill with TB and close to 1.4-million people died. Most (95%) of the cases are in low- and middle-income countries...
Violet Chihota 23 Mar 2021
When we think about nurturing healthy children, we need to adopt a life course approach to maternal nutrition. In other words, a women's health for the benefit of herself and her child must be prioritised early in life...
Chantell Witten & Shane Norris 9 Mar 2021
In early December 2020, a 10-day coding boot camp, organised by the UN Economic Commission for Africa and...
Dr Mwarumba Mwavita 4 Feb 2021
From reducing bias in product design to tackling racial injustice, more than 100 businesses, governments and non-profits launched a global initiative...
Zachary Fagenson 29 Jan 2021
The World Aids Day commemoration of 2020 took place in the midst of a global pandemic. It served as another reminder that people are not only susceptible to pathogens...
Kaymarlin Govender, Janet Seeley, Mitzy Gafos, Roselyn Kanyemba 24 Dec 2020
South Africa is the top country in the world for adopting progressive HIV policies...
James Stent 2 Dec 2020
A trial involving over 1,200 children from four different countries has found that the vast majority of them could be successfully treated for tuberculosis (TB) in four months instead of the usual six months...
The global pandemic has highlighted many fault-lines across society, and in our current state of ongoing disruption, it also presents us with unique opportunities to make changes...
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 8 Oct 2020
Shamila Ramjawan has been recognised as a great humanitarian for her efforts to promote menstrual health and hygiene...
Lesego Ravhudzulo 6 Oct 2020
African countries bear a disproportionate burden of infectious and noncommunicable diseases. More than two thirds of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa...
Jude Igumbor 1 Sep 2020
In the wake of the global pandemic, a murky 'shadow pandemic' has emerged from which no country is immune...
Nombasa Tsengwa 31 Aug 2020
Global warming and air pollution have something in common: their effects on human health. Air pollution is a well-known cause of breathing problems.. Hot weather can also bring on these symptoms...
Bukola Olutola & Janine Wichmann 14 Jul 2020
The broad, global migration towards virtual platforms following widespread Covid-19 lockdowns has highlighted the need for the digital privacy of children to be properly secured and protected. With more time spent in the digital world, child exposure to digital marketing is growing rapidly...
The passing of laws to end child marriage resulted in blocking thousands of child marriages and enabling second chance education for girls...
Justine Coulson, Roberta Clarke, and Mohamed M. Fall 17 Jun 2020
As Covid-19 has spread across the world, we have seen dietitians at the frontlines of the health response supervising life-sustaining nutrition in hospitals and care homes...
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 1 Jun 2020
Recently, our country's leaders and medical representatives have publicly debated the effect of the lockdown on the malnutrition rates of our most vulnerable populations...
SACAP (The South African College of Applied Psychology) has announced that its June 2020 enrolment in the Diploma in Counselling and Communication Skills is open, with admissions closing on 31 May...
Issued by SACAP 20 Apr 2020
According to a new report released this week by a commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world, no single country is adequately protecting children's health...
Opinions differ on how to regulate electronic cigarettes. But dozens of countries are taking action. In Africa, Kenya already taxes these products, and South Africa is preparing to follow...
Laura Rossouw 6 Feb 2020
The measles virus has been a part of human life for thousands of years. A recent study suggests that it appeared about 4,000 years ago, originating from a virus affecting livestock...
Matthew Ferrari 28 Jan 2020
The World Health Organisation estimates that one in 160 children around the world has an autism spectrum disorder...
Magandhree Naidoo 20 Jan 2020
What if you could make the tuberculosis vaccine much more powerful, not by altering the ingredients, but just by changing the way it is given to people?
JoAnne L. Flynn 2 Jan 2020
It is more than 20 years since the South African constitution first guaranteed children's "right to basic healthcare services"...
Maylene Shung-King 12 Dec 2019
Sub-Saharan African countries account for about a third of the global burden of vaccine-preventable diseases. These diseases are responsible for a large proportion of deaths in children under the age of five...
Olatunji Adetokunboh 9 Dec 2019
The United Nations has set targets to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To do this the aim is to ensure that by next year, all countries will have achieved what the UN calls 90-90-90 targets...
Mhairi Maskew 26 Nov 2019
Charles Novia, a popular film critic and filmmaker, became the first Nigerian to launch a television channel devoted exclusively to teenagers, Teen Africa TV...
The Department of Basic Education has released, on its website, the scripted lesson plans which are being used in the pilot phase of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in selected schools...
A global commission on health and migration has released its report on how healthcare systems fail migrants...
South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world. An estimated 7.2-million people are living with HIV and 4.4 million are on antiretroviral therapy...
Franziska Meinck 17 Jul 2019
Dr Helen Weber, Medical Adviser at Sanlam, explores the health implications of cannabis and vaping, and the additional cost of insurance to underwrite these risks...
Dr Helen Weber 6 May 2019
Government staffer Souhayata Haidara enjoys talking about her life in a patriarchal society. Her career is a triumph of patience and perseverance...
Kingsley Ighobor 26 Apr 2019
The suffering and massive loss of life caused by tuberculosis (TB) are proof that humanity hasn't prioritised the development of tools to eliminate a disease dating back 9,000 years.
Bavesh Kana 22 Mar 2019
If Africa and Asia are to reap the benefits of having a youthful population and improve their economies, they must improve healthcare for women, adolescents and youth...
There is increasing concern about the number of time children and adolescents are spending on recreational screen time. There's also increasing controversy over whether or not screen time is actually harmful...
Public health research suggests that concerns about alcohol advertising and accessibility warrant strong regulatory action...
Leslie London & Neo Morojele 30 Jan 2019
An adolescent whose mother suffers from depression is 30% more likely to also get depression, new research from the University of Cape Town (UCT) has found...
One of the main problems with plastics is that although we may only need them fleetingly - seconds in the case of microbeads in personal care products, or minutes as in plastic grocery bags - they stick around for hundreds of years...
John Meeker 15 Aug 2018
Turkana is a vast dry, remote countyin northwest Kenya, home to around 1.5 million nomadic livestock herders...
Kennedy Mkutu 2 Aug 2018
South Africa's programme to give mothers antiretroviral treatment preventing them from transmitting HIV to their babies during pregnancy and breastfeeding is rightly lauded for saving lives...
Mary-Ann Davies and Amy Slogrove 1 Aug 2018
HIV is the epidemic of our time, with up to 38.8-million people living with the disease worldwide in 2015-2016, and around two-million new cases diagnosed in 2015...
As disruptive technologies continue to emerge in Rwanda and across the African market in general, young innovators have been challenged to create digital innovations that can help tackle health epidemics such as HIV and Aids...
Athan Tashobya 10 May 2018
Recent research has highlighted that the abundance of food cues - smells, sounds, advertising - in our environment is one of the main causes of overconsumption...
Alex Johnstone 7 May 2018
Africa is a continent in transition. As more and more people embrace a Western way of life as opposed to more traditional customs...
New York Festivals AME Awards announced the 2018 award-winners...
Changing behaviour is difficult - particularly amidst million-dollar advertising onslaughts...
Deborah Minors 18 Jan 2018
Rapid molecular techniques are the tools Dr Anneke van der Spoel van Dijk uses to investigate the spread of TB in the Free State population...