One in five SA teens are overweight or have obesity. Experts say policy changes can help bring this number down and curb the #obesity crisis. Read more via Sipokazi Fokazi. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

A very interesting read about motherhood!

Changing weather patterns brought on by global warming could put pregnant women in danger. But National Department of Health could help to keep them safe. Find out more via Sipokazi Fokazi. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

Read Bhekisisa special report on how health department's MomConnect could keep women safe during climate disasters by sending early weather alerts to them.

.World Health Organization (WHO) says doctors and traditional healers can work together. But not everyone agrees with rules set to formalise how SA’s indigenous healers work. Read more via Sipokazi Fokazi. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

.World Health Organization (WHO) says doctors and traditional healers can work together. But not everyone agrees with rules set to formalise how SA’s indigenous healers work. Read more via Sipokazi Fokazi. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

See how clinics and hospitals contribute to climate change!

.World Health Organization (WHO) says doctors and traditional healers can work together. But not everyone agrees with rules set to formalise how SA’s indigenous healers work. Read more via Sipokazi Fokazi. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

How does the health sector add to #climatechange? And what can #SA hospitals do to slow it down? More from Zano Kunene and Sipokazi Fokazi. #COP29 bhekisisa.org/special-report…

Our Mia Malan recently spoke to Mandy Wiener on Radio 702 to discuss the ways that climate change is making us sick. Mia, along with the rest of our reporting team, is in #Azerbaijan to cover this year’s #COP29. Catch up on our #COP29 coverage here: bhekisisa.org/category/speci…

.Western Cape Health & Wellness has saved South Africa 4 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by building green hospitals. What if the whole country does that? Find out via Zano Kunene and Sipokazi Fokazi. bhekisisa.org/special-report…

Up to 90% of the #CO2emissions from medicines come from the ingredients used to make them. Using long-acting anti-HIV shots like CAB-LA put less #CHGs in the air than oral #PrEP. Find out why via Sipokazi Fokazi and Zano Kunene. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

.Ryan G Wagner of MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit says traditional and Western medicine systems can co-exist in #SA. So why is there pushback against new rules for indigenous healers? Sipokazi Fokazi finds out. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…