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Medshield offers guidance on how to prepare for a healthy pregnancy

Medical Aid

Medshield offers guidance on how to prepare for a healthy pregnancy

Issued by Stone 11 Feb 2025

Staying healthy during your pregnancy

Women's Health

Staying healthy during your pregnancy

Issued by Bonitas 4 Feb 2025

Source: Pexels.

Healthcare

Davos panel unveils $1tn opportunity by addressing women's health gap

Katja Hamilton 12 Feb 2025

Medical Research

MARS Awards: South African researcher wins first place

Katja Hamilton 9 Jan 2025

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

MomConnect celebrates 10 years of transforming maternal and child health in SA

17 Oct 2024

Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. Image by T. Obi, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Property

Marking two decades: Broll Nigeria's journey of innovation and growth

5 Sep 2024

Parents turn to private labels as the rising cost of living bites

Retail

Parents turn to private labels as the rising cost of living bites

5 Apr 2024

Healthcare

Merck Foundation honours outstanding African researchers at 2023 MARS Awards

3 Jan 2024

Healthcare

5 ways Google Health is using AI in Africa

24 Oct 2023

MomConnect celebrates 9 years of transforming maternal health and unveils new symptom-check feature

Women's Health

MomConnect celebrates 9 years of transforming maternal health and unveils new symptom-check feature

Issued by A Better World Network 15 Sep 2023

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Prenatal care - nurturing healthy beginnings for expectant mothers

Tony Singleton 7 Aug 2023

Is your workplace breastfeeding-friendly?

Nutrition

Is your workplace breastfeeding-friendly?

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 1 Aug 2023

Source: Supplied.

Public Health

Groote Schuur Hospital opens adolescent centre of excellence

16 Mar 2022

Emergency Medicine

Attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, ambulances increasing rapidly

11 Mar 2022

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Women's Health

Innovative programmes needed to address women's healthcare in Africa

19 Oct 2021

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Practice management

Quality of care poor in Africa

2 Sep 2021

Babies R Us introduces wellness centre with on-site nursing sister

Retailers

Babies R Us introduces wellness centre with on-site nursing sister

13 May 2021

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Sonia Elks 6 May 2021

#MarketingMasterminds: Gustav Praekelt discusses National Covid-19 WhatsApp Hotline

#MetaMarketingMasterminds

#MarketingMasterminds: Gustav Praekelt discusses National Covid-19 WhatsApp Hotline

Issued by Meta 5 May 2021

Children are eating too much poor nutrient quality food and too little of good nutrient quality food. Shutterstock

Nutrition

South Africa needs to change direction on maternal health to solve child malnutrition

Chantell Witten & Shane Norris 9 Mar 2021

People wait for care at a Kenyan clinic. Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images

Public Health

Why Kenya's pro-poor health financing reforms miss their mark

Edwine Barasa & Evelyn Kabia 23 Oct 2020

#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

#StartupStory

#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

Evan-Lee Courie 21 Aug 2020

Queue of seated outpatients, waiting patiently inside a provincial hospital corridor in Port Elizabeth. Shutterstock

Emergency Medicine

Why people don't get emergency medical care in time: a study in South Africa

Justine Ina Davies 13 Jul 2020

In South Africa, both HIV and pre-eclampsia are a burden to maternal health. GettyImages

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

HIV and high blood pressure in pregnancy: we're tracing the connections

Sayuri Padayachee 18 Jun 2020

What mattered most to mothers using Nigeria’s free maternal health services was that their babies were healthy. Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

What mothers told me about Nigeria's free maternal health services

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 17 Mar 2020

HIV/AIDS

South Africa steps up its game to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Ute Feuch & Jeannette Wessels 9 Jan 2020

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Antenatal care in Kenya needs improvement

Patience Afulani 26 Nov 2019

There is growing awareness of the negative impact of ‘parachute research’. Shutterstock

Medical Research

Lack of equity and diversity still plague global health research

Madhukar Pai 22 Nov 2019

Turn.io chat platform connects social impact organisations with audiences

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Turn.io chat platform connects social impact organisations with audiences

25 Oct 2019

Meningitis virus

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

GBS rapid test improves maternal health in the developing world

29 May 2019

Home visit trials strongly encouraged spouses to get involved. Anne Cockroft

Women's Health

Nigerian trial shows how universal home visits can help reduce maternal risks

Anne Cockcroft & Neil Andersson 11 Apr 2019

Doctors at a hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Shutterstock

Public Health

Scorecards can help measure health outcomes. An East Africa case study

Wilfred Senyoni 8 Apr 2019

Introducing the e-patient

Medtech

Introducing the e-patient

4 Apr 2019

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

Travel

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

12 Mar 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

Public Health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

Don't talk to me, talk to my chatbot

Digital

Don't talk to me, talk to my chatbot

Belinda Kayton 17 Sep 2018

Radical transformation needed to achieve UHC

NHI

Radical transformation needed to achieve UHC

27 Aug 2018

After a slow start, South Africa can still speed ahead on SDGs. Here's how

ESG & Sustainability

After a slow start, South Africa can still speed ahead on SDGs. Here's how

Willem Fourie 24 Aug 2018

Health messaging service, MomConnect

Mobile & Apps

Praekelt WhatsApp technology changes the face of social impact

8 Aug 2018

Key insights on fatherhood in South Africa

Wellness

Key insights on fatherhood in South Africa

Issued by BabyYumYum.com 20 Jul 2018

Antiretroviral treatment prevents the virus from multiplying and prolongs the lives of HIV positive people. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

HIV/AIDS

Kenya's HIV progress report: good progress, but also big gaps

Griffins Manguro 3 Jan 2018

NHI

#MTBPS2017: NHI fund plan on hold till Treasury gets more input

Tamar Kahn 26 Oct 2017

#HASA2017: NHI needs to start delivering now

NHI

#HASA2017: NHI needs to start delivering now

Nicci Botha 27 Sep 2017

Precious Matsoso, director general: Department of Health

Medtech

Taming healthcare technology

Nicci Botha 26 Sep 2017

Gestational diabetes a very real threat

Noncommunicable diseases

Gestational diabetes a very real threat

1 Sep 2017

Study: Labour unit policies affect C-section delivery risk

Women's Health

Study: Labour unit policies affect C-section delivery risk

26 Jul 2017

Ensuring safer pregnancies for Kenyan women in urban slums

Health & Welfare

Ensuring safer pregnancies for Kenyan women in urban slums

Blessing Mberu, Kanyiva Muindi, and Patricia Elung 25 May 2017

Source: Bhekisisa/Marina Bazo

Public Health

Is 'all-in-one healthcare' a dream?

Mia Malan 16 May 2017

#AfricaMonth: Africa progressing towards sustainable healthcare

Health & Welfare

#AfricaMonth: Africa progressing towards sustainable healthcare

Sindy Peters 12 May 2017