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New research shows a steep decline in adolescent pregnancy rates across all nine provinces from 2021 to 2025, reversing course from previous years. It’s good news, even if it’s not clear why it’s happening. (Unsplash)
BIRTH RATES AMONG TEENS

Teen pregnancies are dramatically dropping. But researchers aren’t sure why

New research shows a steep decline in adolescent pregnancy rates across all nine provinces from 2021 to 2025, reversing course from previous years. It’s good news, even if it’s…

  • Tanya Pampalone
8 min read
Health economics research estimates that obesity cost South Africa approximately R33.2 billion in 2020, equivalent to about 15% of government health expenditure and roughly 0.67% of GDP. (Yunmai/Unsplash)
ANGELA MURPHY
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Obesity: the chronic disease that isn’t treated like one

A review of 37 studies found that when people stop taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, the weight comes back

  • Tanya Pampalone
  • Anna-Maria van Niekerk
  • Mia Malan
8 min read
The electoral commission and the media need to better explain how the votes work and that the two ballot papers are of equal importance
2019 ELECTIONS

Vote like a mother: Five things moms should ask politicians this election

Women – many of them mothers – constitute more than half of the population. What should moms think of before casting their vote?

  • Julie Mentor
  • Rumbi Goredema Gӧrgens
  • Bhekisisa Team
7 min read