LOCAL Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is increasing in SA after a lull during lockdown, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Wednesday. From the beginning of the year to September 15, the NICD said 147 pertussis cases were notified. A steady increase in cases reported was[…]
INTERNATIONAL Israeli military officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the deaths of five Palestinian children killed on the last day of the country’s recent bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip. Several defence officials told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that an army inquiry into the attack on the Falluja cemetery on 7 August[…]
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked by the killing and injuring of Palestinian children by Israeli forces in airstrikes on densely populated areas, through the use of live ammunition and at the continued lack of accountability for these violations.” In its annual “Children and Armed Conflict”[…]
LOCAL Three children aged 1, 4 and 9 died in a fire in Wesbank, Cape Town, on Saturday morning. City Fire’s Jermaine Carelse said during firefighting operations, the bodies of the children were discovered in an informal structure. He said the city’s fire and rescue service was alerted at 2.15am[…]
A new sweet-tasting combination treatment designed for infants and young children with HIV has been approved for use in SA. The “4-in-1″ formulation approved by the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has been developed by the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and pharmaceutical firm Cipla. It does not[…]
Resistance group Hamas has called for providing international protection to Palestinian children against Israeli “crimes”, Anadolu Agency reported. “Israel is practising all types of crimes against Palestinian children, including killing, abduction, assassination, siege and house arrest,” Hamas said in a statement marking the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. The[…]
Israeli occupation authorities have arrested more than 50,000 Palestinian children since 1967, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said in a statement yesterday. Abdul Nasser Ferwaneh, the commission’s head of Studies and Documentation Department, said that the Israeli occupation deals with Palestinian children like adults, stating that they are subject to the[…]
Germany and Finland say they have repatriated 23 of their nationals, women and children from Syria, some of whom were under criminal investigation for allegedly belonging to the ISIL (ISIS) group. “I am very relieved that we were able to repatriate another 12 children and three mothers from camps in[…]
“This has been one of the most traumatic events in our lifetime,” said Dr Yusuf Lalkhen, an educational psychologist. Speaking on the VOC’s Breakfast show on Thursday, Dr Lalkhen described the year 2020 as an extremely debilitating year for the youth and their overall mental wellbeing. South Africa recorded over[…]
Amid the second wave of Covid-19 in South Africa, Western Cape health officials have warned parents to be on the lookout for another disease primarily affecting children. The provincial health department this week noted that there have been 35 reported cases of Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) at Red[…]
WhatsApp us 