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Helping adolescents understand themselves Living with AIDS # 524
‘Tell me about… the changes in my body’ tackles relatively easy to understand developments such as girls developing breasts and boys growing facial hairs. It also discusses teens’ sexual...
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Police brutality still very rife ‘ sex workers
‘We are being harassed by the police and they are using by-laws on us. Right now thugs are taking advantage of us because of the bad relationship between ourselves and the police’, says one sex...
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Teenage pregnancy: girls exchange sex for love
‘Baby, you’re not faithful. You don’t trust me.’ According to Khan this is the phrase men use to coax young girls into having sex with them. Carnegie III was held at the University of Cape...
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Resisting “sugar daddies”– loveLife
This was said by Khangi Kgatle, regional program leader for loveLife in Mopani and Vhembe Districts. loveLife volunteers travel around the two districts teaching young people how to protect themselves...
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Health workers discuss “new sex culture”
This dialogue came as a result of trying to find and analyse problems related to the spread of HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases, said convenor Lebohang Miya. The event was attended by...
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Condom distribution in Mpumalanga must improve
Phiwa Sondhlane, Shipp’s technical officer for health implementation said: “We are supporting community-based organisations to improve condom availability and also increase condom distribution in...
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Huge family planning drive to cut teen pregnancies
Motsoaledi told the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health yesterday that teenage moms were much more likely to die in labour or to give birth to premature babies, who at risk of dying or being...
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Cancer under the covers
Sexual dysfunction is a common yet neglected side effect of cancer. About 90 percent of all female cancer survivors will experience sexual difficulties as a result of the disease or treatment but South...
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The scars of ‘manhood’
“Shingles left me with some scars to remember that I must change my life before is too late.” “I wanted to prove to my friends that I could have sex with any girl I wanted,” says Sibanyoni, who was...
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HPV campaign to focus on girls – for now
Girls will receive an initial dose now and a follow-up dose in September and October Launched at Bloemfontein’s Gonyane Primary School, the national campaign aims to vaccinate all grade four girls...
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