Media Watch
By The Times A damning United Nations report has highlighted horrific conditions under which many of South Africa's children are forced to live.
The Unicef report - yet to be released - offers detailed insight into unnecessary deaths and devastating living conditions of SA's children and demands that government take immediate action.
Continue reading | 21 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: child headed households, the times, unicef
By The New Age Every week South Africans read stories of people who were abandoned as children making a desperate plea to be reunited with their parents on the hugely popular reality show Khumbul'Ekhaya.
Continue reading | 21 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: children orphaned by aids, the new age, women
By The New Age Some 879 children under the age of five died in KZN hospitals in the first three months of this year. Statistics released by the department of health in the legislature yesterday showed that between January and March, Prince Mshiyeni Hospital in Umlazi had 57 infant mortalities, the highest in the province.
Continue reading | 17 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: healthcare, mortality, pmtct, the new age
By The New Age One event and the reporting of an issue demonstrated in the past few weeks that there is excellence in our journalism.
Four years ago Discovery Health launched an annual competition for excellence in health journalism, of which I am the convener.
Continue reading | 16 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: hiv awareness, journalism, news media, the new age
By The New Age The health and social development department has admitted that some clinics in the province lacked vital medicines. Department spokesperson Phuti Seloba said the department had to rotate medicine stock due to problems with medicine tender distribution processes at the national level.
Continue reading | 15 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Tags: art, doh, the new age
