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Child mortality rates remain unacceptably high. Poverty and inequality continue to shape life chances before a child is even born. (Photo: Supplied)
2026 STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS

Malnutrition could undo all the work of saving young lives

Reducing child mortality is possible. What remains is the courage to scale what works and to sustain it. If we are serious about ending child stunting by 2030, then we must act…

  • Shadi Nyokong
4 min read
Healthcare workers move a body from a makeshift mortuary at a cholera treatment centre at Bwaila district hospital in Lilongwe in February. Photograph: Fredrik Lerneryd/AFP/Getty Images
AFRICA

South Africa joins countries grappling with cholera on the continent

Cholera was largely eliminated from industrialised countries more than a century ago, but there are still a significant number of cases each year in Africa

  • Mg Reporter
3 min read
Up to one in five people can get long COVID — a condition in which someone keeps on feeling ill for months after their initial symptoms have cleared up. (Paul Botes)
ACCESSIBLE HEALTHCARE

The Covid pandemic has exacerbated weaknesses in health systems, particularly in poor countries

Strategic investments in health care for all are needed to ensure safe births, treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and children are vaccinated

  • Carin Jämtin
  • Stefan Swartling Peterson
6 min read
CHOLERA

Cholera kills at least 44 in South Sudan

Cholera has infected almost 6 000 south Sudanese and killed at least 44 this year, with more than half dying within the past four weeks, officials from the South Sudanese Health…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read