Nicole Ludolph

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Many people don’t report rape. Here’s how to do it if you decide to

Dec 5, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | Tanya Pampalone |Nicole Ludolph

The law also says adults can’t have sex with children under the age of 16 or mentally disabled people, even with their permission. This is because, legally speaking, they don’t have the capacity to say yes to sex. How to report a rapeIf you do decide to report, here’s how to do it. 1. Go to the police station or a Thuthuzela Care Centre (TCC)You can make a statement at your closest police station or at one of the 54 TCCs around the country.
Floods, food and families: Why climate change makes eating well harder

Feb 21, 2024 | news24.com | Nicole Ludolph

More than a quarter of women across the world do not have enough healthy food to eat every day. As the planet gets hotter and rainfall patterns change, it becomes harder to grow food - and women will be hit harder still. In the face of climate change, we need meaningful solutions to make sure women no longer go hungry. For climate change news and analysis, go to News24 Climate Future. Imagine if everyone in South Africa had enough to eat. Except one in five people in the country don't.
Floods, food and families: Why climate change makes eating well harder

Feb 18, 2024 | bhekisisa.org | Nicole Ludolph

More than a quarter of women across the world are food insecure. In other words, they don’t have enough healthy food to eat every day. As the planet gets hotter and rainfall patterns change, it becomes harder to grow food — and women will be hit harder still. In the face of climate change, we need meaningful solutions to make sure women no longer go hungry. Will political parties in the upcoming elections show they care by addressing climate change and hunger in their manifestos?
Why the health department can’t employ these doctors

Feb 6, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | Zano Kunene |Mia Malan |Nicole Ludolph

A health system in crisis? Pressed about whether the department’s funding woes are plunging the public health system into crisis, Phaahla responded that “it’s really a choice of description” as to what you call a crisis.
Why the health department can’t employ more doctors

Feb 6, 2024 | mg.co.za | Zano Kunene |Mia Malan |Nicole Ludolph

The medical negligence claims of close to R900 million paid out in only one province in a recent financial year would have been enough to employ the country’s 694 unemployed doctors, Health Minister Joe Phaahla announced on Monday during a press conference.
A budgetary tussle: Why the health department can’t employ these doctors — yet - Bhekisisa

Feb 5, 2024 | bhekisisa.org | Zano Kunene |Nicole Ludolph |Mia Malan

In a press release on Monday, the health department said the number of unemployed recently qualified doctors stands at close to 700. Health Minister Joe Phaahla said that this is because provinces are not able to afford to create vacant posts as medical officer salaries are high and the health budget has already taken cuts. The department is working with provinces to place doctors and other health professionals in the public health sector — and pay their salaries.
How Treasury’s budget cuts will affect community service posts

Dec 14, 2023 | businesslive.co.za | Zano Kunene |Nicole Ludolph

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. In 2022, the National Treasury said it would make an extra R1.1bn availablefor medical internships and community service positions this year. But now, because of the national purse asking provincial government departments — like health — to tighten their spending, there might be even less money available to pay for these positions.
No patient left behind? How national treasury’s budget cuts will affect comm serve posts

Dec 12, 2023 | bhekisisa.org | Zano Kunene |Nicole Ludolph

Recent cuts to South Africa’s provincial budgets are making less money available to pay for health science graduates who need to do their community service. These positions are often crucial to the healthcare needs of poor and underserved communities. Graduates from the medicine, dental and rehabilitation therapy fields need to do community service in order to be fully qualified, but nearly 200 of them have not been placed by 12 December.
TB talks: Will #UNGA78 change these three lives?

Sep 26, 2023 | mg.co.za | Nicole Ludolph

In 2018, at the last high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis (TB) world leaders adopted aspirational goals to end TB by 2030. Five years later, the talks at the United Nations General Assembly have been on again — in the shadow of much of the progress in reducing the burden of TB since then having been reversed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
TB talks: Will #UNGA78 change these three lives?

Sep 21, 2023 | bhekisisa.org | Nicole Ludolph

Despite progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB) in the five years since the last high-level meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, none of the targets set out then have been met. Governments have, for instance, not spent close to the amount of money they said they’d spend on TB. Today, political leaders will be talking about how to get back on track to end the disease by 2030 — but can they be trusted to stick to their commitments?