Two of the Miss South Africa Top 15 semi-finalists – Karishma Ramdev and Thato Mosehle – are medical doctors who are currently working at the front-line during the Covid pandemic. They explain their daily challenges; their best health tips; what they would do if they were the Minister of Health for a day and why […] Meet the doctors: The two Miss South Africa semi-finalists on the medical front-line
As the country keeps making progress and slowly opening up the economy, Brand South Africa in collaboration with National Business Initiative (NBI) hosted a that unpacked… The webinar hosted in June unpacked ‘COVID-19 Recovery Strategy – How to Navigate the Economic and Brand Reputation Risk Landscape During and After COVID-19’. The world and... COVID-19 Recovery Strategy – How to Navigate the Economic and Brand Reputation Risk Landscape During and After COVID-19 – A Collaboration of Stakeholders
Johannesburg, Tuesday 18 September 2018 – Brand South Africa welcomes South Africa’s improvement in the 2018 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report (HDR). South Africa’s 2018 ranking is 113 out of 189 countries, with an over-all human development score increased to 0.699. Brand South Africa’s GM for Research, ... UNDP Report shows that South Africans are enjoying a longer and healthier life
An active nation is a healthy nation! Findings from the Discovery Health’s latest Fittest City Index have indicated the fitness habits of South Africans according to their geo-location. Clients’ physical activities were tracked through the Discovery Vitality app that recorded data of over half a million members in Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth,... Cape Town comes out tops as the fittest city
South Africa is taking part in an experimental vaccine programme to curb HIV. Just over 5 000 volunteers, from 15 cities across five provinces, will participate, following screening. Results from the trial will be released in late 2020. Brand South Africa reporter South Africa is participating in an experimental vaccine programme that could prevent... South Africa makes history with HIV vaccine trial
Since 1986 former American president Jimmy Carter has worked to eradicate Dracunculiasis – the extremely painful and debilitating Guinea worm disease – from the African continent. Three decades later, the dread disease has almost been eliminated. Former US presidnet Jimmy Carter wants to see the eradication of Guinea worm infections in his lifetime... The eradication of Guinea worm in Africa
In the same fashion people draw money from ATMs, South Africans will soon be able to get medicine from dispensing machines. The Department of Health made the announcement at the 21st International Aids Conference, which took place in Durban from 18-22 July. The pharmacy dispensing unit (PDU) is being piloted at Thembalethu Clinic in Johannesburg. [... Drug ATM for South Africans
American scientists are scheduling a major trial of an experimental HIV vaccine in South Africa in 2016, “the most feasible vaccine ever developed”. It will be one of largest single clinical testing processes done in South Africa. Extensive HIV vaccine study planned in South Africa
South Africa’s Gauteng department of health is merging technology with patient care to improve overall delivery in its hospitals. After a successful trial phase, the Electronic Bed Management System was officially launched in Pretoria on 19 April 2016. Health care goes high tech in South Africa
Human milk banking, like wet nursing, has been around for years. But in modern times with the rise of HIV, precautions are necessary. The South African Breastmilk Reserve allows babies to be fed with breast milk when their mothers are unable to do so. It helps to reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission, and other infections in premature... The SABR provides breast milk to babies in need
A team of South African health care professionals is to leave for Sierra Leone, where a South African mobile laboratory already offers Ebola testing facilities. The team leaves as the World Health Organization says trials of two vaccines are to start on healthy human volunteers soon. South Africa helps to beat Ebola
“Yes, I survived Ebola,” a Guinean woman said in the first message sent through an interactive application that is being used to deliver public health information about Ebola to affected populations, helping to reduce the stigma faced by survivors in West Africa. Ebola survivors share life-saving tips via mobile app
With canoe-cracking rocks, steaming rapids, broiling heat and arduous terrain, the Dusi Canoe Marathon makes for a race that truly tests mental and physical strength. The 62-year-old competition still attracts serious endurance athletes and old warriors. The Dusi Canoe Marathon: testing athletes’ mettle for 62 years
While most people are tucked up warmly indoors during winter, a group of dedicated extreme athletes is out riding the Freedom Challenge. The mountain bike race takes riders more than 2 000 kilometres across some of South Africa’s harshest but most beautiful scenery. Freedom Challenge tests athletes’ limits
Some of the world’s most extreme races are held in South Africa, where elite athletes – and ordinary people – pit themselves against the unforgiving elements and huge distances. Perhaps the most well-known is the Comrades Marathon, a gruelling 90km run between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. South Africa is world’s endurance race capital
The 2010 football World Cup in South Africa may be a distant memory, but its legacy lives on through the Fifa World Cup Legacy Trust. In the first allocation of funds, 14 organisations got some financial assistance. This has had a huge impact on the lives of some of the country’s poorest children. Fifa World Cup Legacy Trust has changed lives
Breathe in, breathe out: practising yoga is improving the lives of many impoverished and sick people in the townships around Durban. They are feeling more peaceful, more hopeful and healthier, they say. And now the Township Yogi Project plans to expand its work to Joburg and Cape Town. Township yoga brings peace and healing
It was another wild ride down The Dusi this year, with winners Andy Birkett and Sbonelo Zondi delighted with their performance. It was Birkett’s 10th marathon, earning him his green number. The rapids, the heat, the uphill portages and the unpredictable water levels combine to make the Dusi Canoe Marathon one of the toughest endurance races i... Andy Birkett gets his green number, at 23
Backstroke, breast stroke or even doggy paddle – it’s all welcome at the Midmar Mile, the annual gathering acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the largest open water swim on the planet. It’s a happy, vibrant community event, with champions swimming alongside newbies, and everyone out to have fun. In the swim of things at the Midmar Mile
Eating fat is good for you. That’s the revolutionary claim by South African health and exercise guru Tim Noakes, who enthralled the audience at a recent Extraordinary South Africans talk with his controversial new diet plan – high fats, high protein and next to no carbohydrates, ideally none. The extraordinary real meal revolution of Tim Noakes
