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1 week ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Mia Malan |Jessica Pitchford |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. Sahpra has only approved one form of ketamine — a nasal spray — to treat depression, but it’s not yet available in the country.
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1 week ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Mia Malan |Jessica Pitchford |Yolanda MDZEKE |Thatego Mashabela | +1 more
In the latest episode of Health Beat, we unpack the growing use of the psychedelic drug, ketamine, to treat severe depression and chronic pain. Research shows it can work quickly to improve mood, but experts are concerned about the rise of unregulated clinics using ketamine in ways that aren’t backed by solid evidence or properly supervised.
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1 month ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Anna-Maria Van Niekerk |Anna-Maria van Niekerk |Mia Malan |Jessica Pitchford |Yolanda MDZEKE |Thatego Mashabela | +1 more
02 May 2025 - 04:30 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Are baby boxes a harmful tool that makes child abandonment and trafficking easy, or a lifesaver for mothers with nowhere to turn? Watch our latest episode of Health Beat. In 1999, a metal box called the “Door of Hope” was installed at a church in Johannesburg, offering birth mothers in crisis a safer way to leave their babies.
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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. Every year, hundreds of newborns and foetuses are found dumped in the 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.
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2 months 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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Feb 26, 2025 | 
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.
