FAQs about strokes: Causes, warning signs and modern neuroimaging

FAQs about strokes: Causes, warning signs and modern neuroimaging

Dr Hofmeyr Viljoen, a Neuroradiologist from SCP Radiology, explains strokes - a critical health issue affecting people of all ages - from its causes...
1 IN 5 SOUTH AFRICANS LIVES WITH HEARING LOSS: WHY ADDRESSING HEARING LOSS MATTERS

1 IN 5 SOUTH AFRICANS LIVES WITH HEARING LOSS: WHY ADDRESSING...

“Hearing connects us to our families, our work, our communities and our culture. Protect it,” says audiologist ahead of World Hearing Day Approximately 12 million...
Every Child Heard: Why South Africa must implement universal newborn hearing screening now.

Every Child Heard: Why South Africa must implement universal newborn hearing...

World Hearing Day: 3 March 2026 Policy brief shows how South Africa can screen every newborn for hearing loss. In the State of the Nation...
Hearing Damage from Headphones

Hearing Damage from Headphones

Affinity Health, a leading provider of high-quality health cover, is marking World Hearing Day (3 March) by bringing attention to a growing but often...
Endometriosis Awareness Month: Advanced Pelvic Floor Technology Offers Relief

Endometriosis Awareness Month: Advanced Pelvic Floor Technology Offers Relief

March is recognised globally as Endometriosis Awareness Month, a time to spotlight a condition that affects an estimated one in ten women of reproductive...
Hearing well should feel natural, not exhausting - World Hearing Day 3 March

Hearing well should feel natural, not exhausting – World Hearing Day...

This World Hearing Day 3 March, South Africa’s largest Audiology retail network is challenging the idea that hearing is just about ‘turning up the...
MARIE-ALIX DE PUTTER JOINS PRAXIS, GLOBAL NETWORK FOR HIGH-IMPACT LEADERSHIP

MARIE-ALIX DE PUTTER JOINS PRAXIS, GLOBAL NETWORK FOR HIGH-IMPACT LEADERSHIP

LOME, Togo, 27 February 2026 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/ – The Bluemind Foundation announces that its Founder and President, Marie Alix De Putter, has been...
Why Weight Loss Is Harder for Some People

Why Weight Loss Is Harder for Some People

Affinity Health, a leading provider of high-quality health cover, is using World Obesity Day (4 March) to highlight that weight loss is not the same for...
Engens 2026 We Care Campaign visited Wittedrift Primary School in Plettenberg Bay

Engen’s ‘We Care Campaign’ brings dignity and confidence to Wittedrift Primary...

Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape – 24 February 2026 – 100 learners at Wittedrift Primary School in Plettenberg Bay are now better equipped to manage...
Newly released 2025 scorecard unveils progress and setbacks on health and gender equality across Southern Africa

Newly released 2025 scorecard unveils progress and setbacks on health and...

Geneva, Switzerland, 26 February 2026- /African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has launched its biennial scorecard, a critical tool that...
Rare Disease Day 2026 puts equity for patients in the spotlight

Rare Disease Day 2026 puts equity for patients in the spotlight

Johannesburg, 25 February 2026: Rare diseases each affect relatively small numbers of people, but collectively they impact more than 300 million individuals worldwide across...
Can TB Return? Understanding TB Relapse and Reinfection

Can TB Return? Understanding TB Relapse and Reinfection

Affinity Health, a leading provider of high-quality health cover, is raising awareness this TB Awareness Month around an important but often misunderstood question: can TB return...