medical care

Despite having one of the highest rates of road-related deaths in the world, South African seatbelt laws have not covered children under the age of three. However, from April next year, it will be illegal for children to sit in the front seat or not be appropriately and safely restrained.

Fear, distrust and a lack of education are adding fuel to the rampant spread of Ebola through West Africa and beyond. To try to get the facts to people in the frontline countries, a group of international NGOs has teamed up with a video production company on an animated short that tells the story in local languages.

Dr Vanessa Naidoo's passion for people and medicine has led to her leaving the comforts of home to provide much-needed medical care for vulnerable people in some of the world's most dangerous places. 

Dr Vanessa Naidoo's passion for people and medicine has led to her leaving the comforts of home to provide much-needed medical care for vulnerable people in some of the world's most dangerous places. 

Medical advances are making history, and people – and babies – are surviving extraordinary odds. Many of these ground-breaking medical techniques are mastered by doctors in South Africa. In some instances, they are showing the world the way.

Nelson Mandela has devoted a great deal of his time and resources since his release from prison to improving the lives of children around the world, but particularly in South Africa. He has given his own salary and prize money, and set up the Children's Fund to help the younger, more vulnerable members of society.
• The women in Madiba's life

Johannesburg’s inner city suburb of Hillbrow has become home to a new world class maternal and child health facility. The Shandukani Centre, one of the largest non-hospital based clinics in Southern Africa, will provide expert healthcare and treatment to vulnerable women and children, right on their doorstep.
• SA’s second health train rolls out

Young South Africans are most concerned about unemployment and education, according to a new survey, in which two-thirds of respondents identified these two factors as the country's most pressing problems.

Doctors Without Borders will be the first global medical humanitarian organisation to adopt South Africa's very own emergency medicine response system in several countries where their teams provide emergency medical care.
• SA, Cuba to train more doctors

Fair Cape Dairies has become the first South African dairy to publish its carbon footprint on its milk bottles, proving that it cares not only for its cows, but also the environment.
• SA’s greenest dairy