There are few statistics on deafblindness and specialised services to support the functioning of deafblind people is poor in Africa
Health
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Suicides need our urgent attention
Treating it with the urgent attention and decisive intervention that it deserves is long overdue
Posted inHealth
The mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge systems can undo vaccine hesitancy
There’s a shift towards reclaiming African solutions to deal with modern-day problems
Posted inHealth, News/Politics
Is it my right not to get vaccinated?
Having our rights restricted by the needs of others is nothing new, because we accept that rights come with responsibilities
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Covid-19: Fast and furious like a runaway car
But we need to take care of the metaphors we use to describe the pandemic
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Covid-19: It’s all up to the government
The government must mass vaccinate the entire population now
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We can learn from the Ancient Greeks about healing and health
Hygieia and Asklepios were the gods of dream healing cults that rose in about 500 BCE during the Plague of Athens
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Why doctors dread the days the country celebrates
‘Big’ days in sport — or even just weekends — almost always spell an increase in trauma and gender violence. One doctor remembers a day she had to put her compassion aside
Posted inGeneral, Health, Lifestyle
Silence like a cancer
A trip to the leafy ’burbs demonstrates that noise pollution can strike anywhere, not just in urban apartments
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Is the push for the vaccine a push too far?
In my opinion, there hasn’t been enough safety testing and I won’t be in the queue for a jab
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Mass education campaign needed to counter vaccine hesitancy
Misinformation and a lack of government trust threaten SA’s vaccine programme
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They call it a pandemic. It isn’t
As Elon Musk says, Covid-19 ‘is something with a very low mortality rate and high contagion’