Bookshelf: South Africa: Death and Dying in the Eastern Cape 鈥 An investigation into the collapse of a health system: A special report of the TAC/SECTION27 NSP Review by the Treatment Action Campaign and Section 27: Catalysts for Social Justice, South Africa 2013...
Policy-makers confront an "information paradox": the critical need for information on which to base priorities and monitor progress, and the profound shortage of such information.Aims: To better understand the dynamics of mortality transition in rural South Africa over a decade of profound socio-...
How has the DA conceptualised and instrumentalised the vision of non-racialism, historically and in post-apartheid South Africa? This article argues that neither the DA nor the ANC has been able to do so coherently. The idea of non-racialism is a fracture that deeply divides both parties;...
Even Catholic priests have recognized the need for regulated death without agreeing morally with MAID. “And of the two possibilities, assisted suicide is the one [versus euthanasia] that most restricts abuses…. [So] it is a question of seeing which law can limit evil,” argues Father Renzo...
Generally, as people age, the rate of mortality increases. Yet there's one period, the timeframe between a child's first day of life and age five, when mortality tends to decrease as the child gets older.
As the plant grows, it can consume all the nutrients in the soil and create a nutrient deficiency. Without the nutrients, the growth rate decreases, the leaves and flowers change color, and the plant can die. Solution To prevent your pickle plant from dying due to a lack of nutrients, co...
CAPE TOWN, April 15 (Xinhua) -- As many as one in two people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) are dying of the disease in South Africa because of limited access to effective medicine, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said on Monday. ...
When 19th-century European explorers ventured south into the vast, mysterious terrain of Africa and romantically dubbed it “the Dark Continent,” it is safe to say they had no comprehension of just how deadly it actually was. Stacked up against the rest of the world, Africa leads the way ...
In Africa, the deceased continue living after death. Most Africans believe in ancestors—the dead who continue living and guiding their family in the afterlife. Without a proper funeral and burial, the ancestor will become a wandering ghost. ...
She was grateful for the support offered from the local palliative care team, because, without it, his pain had been unbearable and they spent time listening to her worries. Family members had rallied round, as is the tradition in that country, and contributed what they could to help pay ...