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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
brnw.ch | Mia Malan |Danny Booysen |Yolanda MDZEKE
Chaos and devastation is the position South African USAID-funded health projects find themselves in after the Trump administration closed them down overnight on 26 February. But it was not only them. There were 5 800 such projects around the world. The bigger question now is: what will happen to the US government's Aids fund, Pepfar, where most of the money for these projects came from? Will that too close down? On 25 March, the US Congress will vote to reauthorise Pepfar - or not. How will they vote?
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2 months ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Mia Malan |Danny Booysen |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. Former USAID administrator Samantha Power hugs a person after workers cleared out their desks in Washington, DC, February 27 2025.
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2 months 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 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.
