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Bonitas – innovation, life stages and quality care

Medical Aid

Bonitas – innovation, life stages and quality care

Lee Callakoppen, Issued by Bonitas 14 Oct 2024

Focus on cervical cancer in Women’s Month

Women's Health

Focus on cervical cancer in Women’s Month

Issued by CANSA 15 Aug 2024

Tackling women’s health holistically

Women's Health

Tackling women’s health holistically

Issued by Bonitas 7 Jun 2024

It’s business as usual at medical schemes

Medical Aid

It’s business as usual at medical schemes

Issued by Bonitas 4 Jun 2024

Talking about HPV and cervical cancer

Women's Health

Talking about HPV and cervical cancer

Issued by Bonitas 4 Mar 2024

What to expect from a medical check-up

Hospital Groups

What to expect from a medical check-up

Issued by Intercare 5 Feb 2024

Source: Supplied.

Public Health

HPV vaccination campaign launches in Western Cape schools

12 Sep 2023

Source: Supplied. Seithati Molefi, deputy chief-of-party at Right to Care.

Women's Health

Let's talk about sex that is safe and satisfying

Seithati Molefi 16 Aug 2023

Public Health

Cervical cancer screening tools reach low and lower-middle income countries

19 Jun 2023

Public Health

Cervical cancer can be beaten - the key is vaccinating young girls

Lynette Denny 11 Apr 2023

Source: Marie Stopes

Public Health

New coalition to increase access to cervical screening in sub-Saharan Africa

20 Mar 2023

HPV awareness key In lowering cervical cancer risk

Oncology

HPV awareness key In lowering cervical cancer risk

Issued by CANSA 3 Mar 2023

Source: Supplied.

Oncology

Cancers that commonly affect women and the new innovations in treatment

21 Feb 2023

Medical Aid

The Covid storm may be over, but its impact on the global healthcare sector will be felt for years to come

Katja Hamilton 16 Nov 2022

HIV/AIDS

Study finds HIV-positive cervical cancer patients face higher mortality rate

27 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

Early cervical cancer detection is saving lives

22 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. UCT's Emma Finestone.

Healthcare

SA's cancer incidence forecast to rise by 2030

24 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

UCT honours renowned women's health champion in South Africa

Niémah Davids 16 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Thato Mabudusha Schermer, co-founder and chief executive officer at Zoie Health.

Healthcare

#WomensMonth: Digital women's health and wellness clinic - created by women, for women of Africa

Katja Hamilton 16 Aug 2022

Source: Freepik.

Oncology

UCT opens cervical cancer screening site

5 Aug 2022

Health issues affecting women

Women's Health

Health issues affecting women

Issued by Intercare 1 Aug 2022

#StartupStory: Zoie Health - a digital health clinic for women

#StartupStory

#StartupStory: Zoie Health - a digital health clinic for women

Evan-Lee Courie 2 Mar 2022

Oncology

Will cancer biopsies one day be a thing of the past?

4 Feb 2022

Source: ©supplied. Prof Lynette Denny

Women's Health

UCT Prof receives Order of the Baobab (Silver) for cervical cancer work in SA

22 Nov 2021

Lil-Lets launches new campaign: Be You. Period.

Marketing

Lil-Lets launches new campaign: Be You. Period.

19 Oct 2021

Source: Wavebreak Media Ltd –

Primary & Secondary Education

Amended 2021 school calendar will be retained

30 Aug 2021

More than a woman

Women's Month

More than a woman

Issued by Intercare 2 Aug 2021

The importance of a Pap Smear

Hospital Groups

The importance of a Pap Smear

Issued by Intercare 1 Jul 2021

The World Health Organisation partnered with Ogilvy | Social.Lab South Africa to launch 'Vaccines Bring Us Closer' global campaign

ESG

The World Health Organisation partnered with Ogilvy | Social.Lab South Africa to launch 'Vaccines Bring Us Closer' global campaign

Issued by Ogilvy South Africa 4 May 2021

Muizenberg beach is eerily quiet on a hot summer’s day, 29 December 2020. If we want to save lives and life to go back to normal we need to embrace vaccines.

Covid-19

Here's how to fight anti-vaccine propaganda

GroundUp Editors 13 Jan 2021

The rise of commercial milk formulas and why it matters for the world's women and children

FMCG

The rise of commercial milk formulas and why it matters for the world's women and children

David McCoy, Julie P. Smith and Phillip Baker 5 Jan 2021

#WomensMonth: Sandra Orta helps provide healthtech innovations across Africa

Technology

#WomensMonth: Sandra Orta helps provide healthtech innovations across Africa

Evan-Lee Courie 13 Aug 2020

A nurse in a hospital checks an IV. Wikimedia Commons

Oncology

Ghana needs a better policy to guide care for cancer patients

Yakubu Salifu 3 Mar 2020

Cancer cases are on the rise in many parts of the continent. CI concept/Shutterstock

Oncology

What needs to happen for better cancer prevention and control in Kenya

Gershim Asiki 3 Feb 2020

HIV/AIDS

Messages about male circumcision aren't clear: why this is dangerous

Gwinyai Masukume & Witness Mapanga 29 Jan 2020

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Pharmaceuticals

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

Oncology

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

24 Oct 2019

Billion Photos/Shutterstock

Infectious Diseases

Measles epidemic: parents reluctant to vaccinate their children need to hear of the horrors of forgotten diseases

Sarah Pitt 2 Sep 2019

Tips from Nigeria on teaching teens about breast and cervical cancer

Public Health

Tips from Nigeria on teaching teens about breast and cervical cancer

10 May 2019

Cervical cancer is third-biggest killer among young women. Pittawut

Women's Health

Cervical pre-cancer rates down 88% in decade since HPV vaccinations began - first findings

Kevin Pollock 9 Apr 2019

Prof Vikash Sewram, director of the African Cancer Institute at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University

Oncology

#WorldCancerDay: Early detection improves prognosis

Vikash Sewram 4 Feb 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

Public Health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

The life expectancy improvements in sub-Saharan Africa vary between men and women. Shutterstock

Noncommunicable diseases

Lifestyle diseases could scupper Africa's rising life expectancy

Charles Shey Wiysonge 27 Nov 2018

Photo: Western Cape Government

Tuberculosis

Thousands of us die from these illnesses each day. Will it ever end?

Yogan Pillay 11 Oct 2018

An abnormal Pap test. Komsan Loonprom/Shutterstock.com

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Delay in replacing the Pap smear with HPV screening is costing lives

Alejandra Castanon 8 Oct 2018

Piron Giullaume/Unsplash

Noncommunicable diseases

Tackle Africa's chronic diseases with effective actions

Sam Otieno 18 Sep 2018