Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population — 20 years ago, they were the smallest proportion
The NHI Act says funding healthcare for all should come from tax but economic growth is in a vice and many people are without jobs
The city’s car-free day is going into its ninth year, far outlasting most initiatives like it around the world, including in South Africa
Interventions such as immediate food relief and raising awareness are needed to address undernutrition and obesity
Food systems lack resilience in the face of crisis and that feed crises of their own making, driving climate change and fuelling epidemics of hunger, malnutrition, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases
Health professionals have called on leaders at COP26 to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate, as well as to prevent deaths
Comorbidities, particularly noncommunicable diseases have been put into the spotlight during the Covid-19 pandemic. How we approach preventing NCDs in the future will depend on how the effects of the coronavirus are framed