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PUBLIC HEALTH

Cost blocks public access to RSV protection for babies

High costs are preventing newly approved maternal vaccines and antibody treatments for RSV from entering South Africa's public healthcare system, leaving vulnerable infants…

  • Hasina Kathrada
5 min read
Sign outside the offices of an organisation in Mozambique that was defunded by USAid. Photos: Jesse Copelyn
AFRICA

Mozambican children die after US funding cuts: Who bears responsibility?

The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid

  • Jesse Copelyn
10 min read
Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder affects 5% to 7% of schoolgoing children, but doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time
ADHD

Monthly prescription rule blocks ADHD treatment for South African children

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder affects 5% to 7% of schoolgoing children, but doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, so don’t get too much…

  • Renata Schoeman
8 min read
Making a difference: Mentor mothers from the non-profit organisation One to One Africa after visiting a household in Luqoqweni village in the Eastern Cape. (Oupa Nkosi)
ANTIRETROVIRALS

Eastern Cape headman: ‘You won’t find a child born with HIV in this village’

Babies getting HIV from their infected mothers is rare in a cluster of 39 villages in the OR Tambo district

  • Zano Kunene
10 min read
The new government must ensure nutritious food is affordable and accessible to all children, pregnant women and mothers of young children. File photo
ANC

Fighting stunting in children is key to South Africa’s future prosperity

The new government must make zero stunting a funded national priority

  • Edzani Mphaphuli
6 min read