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Parents turn to private labels as the rising cost of living bites

Retail

Parents turn to private labels as the rising cost of living bites

5 Apr 2024

Healthcare

Merck Foundation honours outstanding African researchers at 2023 MARS Awards

3 Jan 2024

Healthcare

5 ways Google Health is using AI in Africa

24 Oct 2023

MomConnect celebrates 9 years of transforming maternal health and unveils new symptom-check feature

Healthcare

MomConnect celebrates 9 years of transforming maternal health and unveils new symptom-check feature

Issued by A Better World Network 15 Sep 2023

Healthcare

Prenatal care - nurturing healthy beginnings for expectant mothers

Tony Singleton 7 Aug 2023

Is your workplace breastfeeding-friendly?

Healthcare

Is your workplace breastfeeding-friendly?

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 1 Aug 2023

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Healthcare

Groote Schuur Hospital opens adolescent centre of excellence

16 Mar 2022

Healthcare

Attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, ambulances increasing rapidly

11 Mar 2022

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Healthcare

Innovative programmes needed to address women's healthcare in Africa

19 Oct 2021

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Healthcare

Quality of care poor in Africa

2 Sep 2021

Babies R Us introduces wellness centre with on-site nursing sister

Retail

Babies R Us introduces wellness centre with on-site nursing sister

13 May 2021

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Healthcare

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Sonia Elks 6 May 2021

#MarketingMasterminds: Gustav Praekelt discusses National Covid-19 WhatsApp Hotline

Marketing & Media

#MarketingMasterminds: Gustav Praekelt discusses National Covid-19 WhatsApp Hotline

Issued by Meta 5 May 2021

Children are eating too much poor nutrient quality food and too little of good nutrient quality food. Shutterstock

Healthcare

South Africa needs to change direction on maternal health to solve child malnutrition

Chantell Witten & Shane Norris 9 Mar 2021

People wait for care at a Kenyan clinic. Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images

Healthcare

Why Kenya's pro-poor health financing reforms miss their mark

Edwine Barasa & Evelyn Kabia 23 Oct 2020

#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

Entrepreneurship

#WorldEntrepreneursDay: Teheca is connecting expectant mothers to nurses in Uganda

Evan-Lee Courie 21 Aug 2020

Queue of seated outpatients, waiting patiently inside a provincial hospital corridor in Port Elizabeth. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Why people don't get emergency medical care in time: a study in South Africa

Justine Ina Davies 13 Jul 2020

In South Africa, both HIV and pre-eclampsia are a burden to maternal health. GettyImages

Healthcare

HIV and high blood pressure in pregnancy: we're tracing the connections

Sayuri Padayachee 18 Jun 2020

What mattered most to mothers using Nigeria’s free maternal health services was that their babies were healthy. Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images

Healthcare

What mothers told me about Nigeria's free maternal health services

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 17 Mar 2020

Healthcare

South Africa steps up its game to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Ute Feuch & Jeannette Wessels 9 Jan 2020

Healthcare

Antenatal care in Kenya needs improvement

Patience Afulani 26 Nov 2019

There is growing awareness of the negative impact of ‘parachute research’. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Lack of equity and diversity still plague global health research

Madhukar Pai 22 Nov 2019

Turn.io chat platform connects social impact organisations with audiences

ESG & Sustainability

Turn.io chat platform connects social impact organisations with audiences

25 Oct 2019

Meningitis virus

Healthcare

GBS rapid test improves maternal health in the developing world

29 May 2019

Home visit trials strongly encouraged spouses to get involved. Anne Cockroft

Healthcare

Nigerian trial shows how universal home visits can help reduce maternal risks

Anne Cockcroft & Neil Andersson 11 Apr 2019

Doctors at a hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Scorecards can help measure health outcomes. An East Africa case study

Wilfred Senyoni 8 Apr 2019

Introducing the e-patient

Healthcare

Introducing the e-patient

4 Apr 2019

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

Tourism & Travel

African City Guide launches connecting business travellers to Africa

12 Mar 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

Healthcare

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

Don't talk to me, talk to my chatbot

Marketing & Media

Don't talk to me, talk to my chatbot

Belinda Kayton 17 Sep 2018

Radical transformation needed to achieve UHC

Healthcare

Radical transformation needed to achieve UHC

27 Aug 2018

After a slow start, South Africa can still speed ahead on SDGs. Here's how

ESG & Sustainability

After a slow start, South Africa can still speed ahead on SDGs. Here's how

Willem Fourie 24 Aug 2018

Health messaging service, MomConnect

ICT

Praekelt WhatsApp technology changes the face of social impact

8 Aug 2018

Antiretroviral treatment prevents the virus from multiplying and prolongs the lives of HIV positive people. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Healthcare

Kenya's HIV progress report: good progress, but also big gaps

Griffins Manguro 3 Jan 2018

Healthcare

#MTBPS2017: NHI fund plan on hold till Treasury gets more input

Tamar Kahn 26 Oct 2017

#HASA2017: NHI needs to start delivering now

Healthcare

#HASA2017: NHI needs to start delivering now

Nicci Botha 27 Sep 2017

Precious Matsoso, director general: Department of Health

Healthcare

Taming healthcare technology

Nicci Botha 26 Sep 2017

Gestational diabetes a very real threat

Healthcare

Gestational diabetes a very real threat

1 Sep 2017

Study: Labour unit policies affect C-section delivery risk

Healthcare

Study: Labour unit policies affect C-section delivery risk

26 Jul 2017

Ensuring safer pregnancies for Kenyan women in urban slums

ESG & Sustainability

Ensuring safer pregnancies for Kenyan women in urban slums

Blessing Mberu, Kanyiva Muindi, and Patricia Elung 25 May 2017

Source: Bhekisisa/Marina Bazo

Healthcare

Is 'all-in-one healthcare' a dream?

Mia Malan 16 May 2017

#AfricaMonth: Africa progressing towards sustainable healthcare

ESG & Sustainability

#AfricaMonth: Africa progressing towards sustainable healthcare

Sindy Peters 12 May 2017

South Africa's healthcare system could be world class

Healthcare

South Africa's healthcare system could be world class

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 16 Mar 2017

Winners of Africa innovation challenge

Entrepreneurship

Winners of Africa innovation challenge

15 Mar 2017

First Johnson & Johnson Africa Innovation Challenge winners

HR & Management

First Johnson & Johnson Africa Innovation Challenge winners

14 Mar 2017

Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?

Healthcare

Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?

15 Dec 2016

Kenya needs to combat NCDs through public private partnerships

Healthcare

Kenya needs to combat NCDs through public private partnerships

7 Dec 2016

Enter Africa innovation challenge for local health solutions

Marketing & Media

Enter Africa innovation challenge for local health solutions

8 Nov 2016