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3 weeks ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Mia Malan |Jessica Pitchford |Yolanda MDZEKE |Thatego Mashabela | +1 more
Every year, hundreds of newborns and foetuses are found dumped in the open veld, dumps and public toilets. Abandonment is often because of a lack of options. When mothers feel desperate, they may choose to dispose of their newborns. While it’s difficult to track exact numbers, some experts estimate that abandoned babies and foetuses make up 2% of the 70,000 unnatural deaths recorded in South Africa annually.
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1 month ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Mia Malan |Jessica Pitchford |Yolanda MDZEKE
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. South Africa has more trained doctors than ever, but state hospitals are still understaffed, with the South African Medical Association (Sama) saying there are 1,800 newly qualified doctors desperate to specialise in the public sector who can’t find jobs.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
bhekisisa.org | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Jessica Pitchford |Mia Malan |Thatego Mashabela
Anna-Maria van Niekerk is Bhekisisa’s news editor. She joined the centre after six years as the managing editor of the investigative television show, Carte Blanche. Anna-Maria has an extensive career in in-depth health and human rights reporting and has been named both the Vodacom Journalist (2002) and Discovery Health Journalist of the Year (2010) for exposés on the selling of human body parts for muti in Limpopo and the devastating consequences of HIV denialism.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Jessica Pitchford |Mia Malan |Thatego Mashabela
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Picture: 123RF/ Maxim Evdokimov South Africa’s national drug master plan recognises drug addiction as a chronic disease that affects the brain and behaviour. It says human rights — instead of prejudice — should underpin the country’s fight against drugs.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
bhekisisa.org | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Jessica Pitchford |Mia Malan |Thatego Mashabela
South Africa’s National Drug Master Plan recognises drug addiction as a chronic disease that affects the brain and behaviour. It says human rights — instead of prejudice — should underpin how the country fights against drugs. That’s why it recommends harm reduction strategies, such as opioid replacement therapy, where drug users are given methadone to curb their withdrawal symptoms and to eventually wean some of them off opioids.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Jessica Pitchford |Mia Malan |Yolanda MDZEKE
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Chiawelo Community Practice in Soweto is a National Health Insurance-like project that was started in 2014. Picture: Screenshot/YouTube For the past decade, the Chiawelo Community Practice (CCP) in Soweto has tested how primary health care that starts within communities through things like exercise groups can keep people healthy.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
news24.com | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Jessica Pitchford |Mia Malan |Yolanda MDZEKE
For the past decade, the Chiawelo Community Practice in Soweto has tested how primary healthcare that starts in communities through things like exercise groups, can keep people healthy. The project was started by Wits University family physician Shabir Moosa who believes it can serve as a blueprint for National Health Insurance. The Chiawelo Community Practice uses community health workers to track the health of 30 000 residents through frequent home visits.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bhekisisa.org | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Jessica Pitchford |Mia Malan |Yolanda MDZEKE
Anna-Maria van Niekerk is Bhekisisa’s news editor. She joined the centre after six years as the managing editor of the investigative television show, Carte Blanche. Anna-Maria has an extensive career in in-depth health and human rights reporting and has been named both the Vodacom Journalist (2002) and Discovery Health Journalist of the Year (2010) for exposés on the selling of human body parts for muti in Limpopo and the devastating consequences of HIV denialism.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
dispatchlive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Jessica Pitchford |Mia Malan |Yolanda MDZEKE
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. Picture: ANTONIO MUCHAVE Chiawelo Community Practice in Soweto is a National Health Insurance (NHI)-like project that was started in 2014. It was started by family physician Shabir Moosa and could become a model for the NHI. Housed in the local government community health centre, the project uses community health workers to gather and write up health information for 30,000 residents they’re assigned to and regularly visit.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
news24.com | Yolanda MDZEKE |Jessica Pitchford |Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk
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