by Chandré Blignaut | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured, News
Mobile Health Clinics teams up with Bayer SA to launch a new Schools Health Programme in Gauteng NPO takes its tried-and-tested model into schools in disadvantaged communities in the Gauteng province Mobile Health Clinics, an NPO that operates mobile health clinics...
by Chandré Blignaut | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured, News
Self-harm – teenagers hurting themselves to regulate emotions Self-harm, the act of deliberately inflicting pain and damage to one’s body by means of cutting, burning, scratching, and self-poisoning through medication or substances in order to relieve emotional...
by Chandré Blignaut | Mar 24, 2023 | Featured, News, SAGP
In honour of World Tuberculosis Day 2023, we share an article from the South African General Practitioner (SAGP). To read more articles in this journal, please visit https://pub.medpharm.co.za/south-african-general-practitioner/ If you are interested in...
by Chandré Blignaut | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured, News
#breakingstigma: It’s okay to not be okay Janssen South Africa collaborates to combat stigma Janssen Neuroscience South Africa launched a campaign to dispel the stigma associated with mental health, creating awareness amongst the public and healthcare professionals...
by Chandré Blignaut | Mar 16, 2023 | Featured, News
Saving sight: Preventing blindness in rural communities More than 80% of people in South Africa affected by vision impairment live in rural areas, where access to specialist diagnostic and treatment services is limited. At the 2023 Ophthalmological Society of South...
by Chandré Blignaut | Feb 28, 2023 | Featured, News
Tackling the challenges of lysosomal storage diseases diagnosis and treatment A disease is defined as ’rare’ when it affects fewer than 1 in 2 000 people,1 and there are currently more than 7 000 known rare diseases (lysosomal storage diseases), affecting more than...
