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Mental health

Why 92% of mentally ill South Africans don't receive treatment

17 Sep 2025

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HIV/AIDS

Revolutionary anti-HIV injection may redefine SA’s public health response

15 Sep 2025

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Education & Training

Chronically online: South Africa’s digital dilemma for sexual health

Jessica Gbedemah 12 Sep 2025

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Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Birth control in Africa: study tracks the use of long-acting contraception in 26 countries

Obasanjo Bolarinwa 4 Sep 2025

Ogilvy SA takes Best in Show at 2025 Sabre Africa Awards

PR & Communications

Ogilvy SA takes Best in Show at 2025 Sabre Africa Awards

Issued by Ogilvy South Africa 22 Jul 2025

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Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

#ActForSRHR digital campaign launches

11 Jul 2025

Why sports is the key to unlocking healthy futures

Sport

Why sports is the key to unlocking healthy futures

Issued by Irvine Partners 26 Feb 2025

Media

Fatima TV Media Awards call for entries from young members of the African media

4 Oct 2024

(Image supplied) Just as in 2023, the City of Cape Town has decreed some of the artwork of the Sex Expo’s Out of Home (OOH) advertising campaign too risqué

OOH

Sex Expo's OOH campaign sees some artwork banned by the City of Cape Town

20 Jun 2024

The Sex Expo returns to Cape Town this June

Events

The Sex Expo returns to Cape Town this June

19 Jun 2024

B-Wise Symposium to showcase transformative insights on youth empowerment through digital health

Medtech

B-Wise Symposium to showcase transformative insights on youth empowerment through digital health

Issued by A Better World Network 12 Jun 2024

Medtech

Unmasking deepfakes: Navigating the threat to medical professional identity and trust

Brenda Kubheka-Chauke 7 Mar 2024

Unite to end gender-based violence

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Unite to end gender-based violence

Issued by The Social Employment Fund 11 Dec 2023

Public Health

Birth by rape: The stats in SA will astound you

Paul Potsane 11 Sep 2023

Source: Supplied. Seithati Molefi, deputy chief-of-party at Right to Care.

Women's Health

Let's talk about sex that is safe and satisfying

Seithati Molefi 16 Aug 2023

Source: Supplied. Melusi Dhlamini, clinical network lead at Healthforce and Kena Health.

Women's Health

#YouthMonth: Championing women's sexual and reproductive health rights at the forefront

Katja Hamilton 27 Jun 2023

The Sex Expo returns to Cape Town after a decade

Events

The Sex Expo returns to Cape Town after a decade

23 May 2023

HIV/AIDS

"Change the name. End the stigma": Why it's time to rename HIV

10 May 2023

SA NPO Reach Digital Health wins international Skoll Award

Health & Social Welfare

SA NPO Reach Digital Health wins international Skoll Award

11 Apr 2023

Global Citizen NOW returns with a new agenda for urgent action

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Global Citizen NOW returns with a new agenda for urgent action

Issued by OnPoint PR 6 Apr 2023

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Occupational Health & Safety

Deadline for submissions on protection of community health workers extended

7 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied. Alex Schmid, founder of Contro.

Medtech

#YouthMonth: A vision for informed choices in sexual and reproductive health

Katja Hamilton 5 Jun 2023

HIV/AIDS

HIV prevention: new injection could boost the fight, but some hurdles remain

Jessica Haberer 28 Nov 2022

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Healthcare

Shifting power and advancing equity in global reproductive health and development

Katja Hamilton 24 Nov 2022

Nontobeko Sibiya. Source: Supplied.

#BehindTheBrandManager

#BehindtheBrandManager: Nontobeko Sibiya, Nando's marketing manager in communications

Karabo Ledwaba 14 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied.

Advertising

Tesco takes the top prize at the 2022 UK Effie Awards

21 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied.

Surgical Procedures

SA first: Robotic assisted surgery breaks new ground

27 Sep 2022

Source: REUTERS. A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. CDC/Handout via REUTERS

Public Health

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe

23 May 2022

Social Media

An emoji is an emoji... or is it?

Baxolise Mfidi 1 Apr 2022

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Women's Health

Innovative programmes needed to address women's healthcare in Africa

19 Oct 2021

Specialties

Introducing Contro, the platform that's transforming access to sexual healthcare across SA!

Issued by Contro 14 Sep 2021

POC Podcasts set to become first African podcast channel on Apple Podcasts

Podcasts

POC Podcasts set to become first African podcast channel on Apple Podcasts

30 Jul 2021

Unpacking terminology around a healthy vagina

Women's Health

Unpacking terminology around a healthy vagina

Issued by GynaGuard 3 Jun 2021

Women who had a secondary or higher level of education were more likely to test for HIV than women who had no formal education. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

African countries differ widely in prenatal HIV testing: why it matters

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 13 Jan 2021

Illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. GettyImages

Infectious Diseases

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is a growing threat: a South African case study

Remco Peters & Liteboho Daniel Maduna 28 Oct 2020

#WomensMonth: Sheba Feminine shifting the narrative around menstrual health

Health & Beauty

#WomensMonth: Sheba Feminine shifting the narrative around menstrual health

Lauren Hartzenberg 12 Aug 2020

D&AD announces winners for New Blood Awards 2020 including two SA entries!

D&AD Awards

D&AD announces winners for New Blood Awards 2020 including two SA entries!

10 Jul 2020

What is shaping culture? Sex, we're all talking about it. Now.

Research

What is shaping culture? Sex, we're all talking about it. Now.

Brett Rogers 4 May 2020

Behind the steamy scenes of Love, The Sex Expo - Q&A with organiser Linda Guldemond

Events

Behind the steamy scenes of Love, The Sex Expo - Q&A with organiser Linda Guldemond

Ruth Cooper 5 Feb 2020

Over R2m worth of LifeStyles Condoms donated to Dis-Chem Foundation

CSI

Over R2m worth of LifeStyles Condoms donated to Dis-Chem Foundation

Issued by ACDOCO SA 29 Jan 2020

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

HIV/AIDS

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

2 Dec 2019

A number of factors contribute to the lower rates of uptake of HIV treatment by adolescents. Nic Bothma/EPA

HIV/AIDS

South Africa needs to get more young people with HIV on treatment

Mhairi Maskew 26 Nov 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

#SeamlessSA: Stay woke and grow your business

Exhibitions & Events

#SeamlessSA: Stay woke and grow your business

Maroefah Smith 20 Mar 2019

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HIV/AIDS

Stop blaming PrEP for the rise in STIs - the picture is more complex than that

Oli Stevens & Charles Witzel 11 Dec 2018