Violence, pregnant teenagers and booze at De Aar's end of the world

Alcohol abuse breeds apathy and joblessness, and fuels abuse in an ever more vicious cycle.

Comment: Alcohol industry still calls the shots

When Soul City's PhuzaWize campaigners did a community mapping exercise there in 2013, they found 2 305 households, one community library, a cultural village, a soccer stadium, an arts school, two clinics, 10 schools, five creches and 14 churches. And 28 liquor outlets; 24 were illegal.

Some interesting statistics on alcohol and alcohol use in South Africa.

Soul City: Behaviour Change In Young Women

At a meeting on 3 December 2013, the Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) elected the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication as the 6th Principal Recipient (PR) of a Global Fund grant in the allocation of 307 293 214 billion USD approved last September (Soul City received R60 million of the grant).

College students are renowned for partying at the weekends, and this usually involves having a drink or two. But new research has found that this level of alcohol consumption may cause damage to DNA. This is according to a study published in the journal Alcohol.

Tribute to Nelson Mandela

The Soul City Institute extends its condolences to the Mandela family. Like everyone across the world, we received the news of Tata’s passing with great sadness and disbelief. Although he had been sick for a while, I do not think that we would ever be ready to say goodbye to him.

Article from Daily Sun, 2 December 2013 - Written by Njabulo Ngcobo

The results of a campaign by Africa's largest social change communication organisation, the Johannesburg-based Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (Soul City), indicate very strongly that the HIV/AIDS pandemic ravaging sub-Saharan Africa can be beaten back if there is sufficient will and committed support for worthy programmes.

New partners join Eldis in “Open Knowledge Hub” project

Eldis is joining forces with eight new partner organisations in a new collaborative project, provisionally called the “Open Knowledge Hub”, to support knowledge producers and consumers, particularly those in developing countries, to improve the availability and accessibility of global development research.

Article from The New Age, 29 November 2013 - Written by Lebo Ramafoko

3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health - The Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health

Renewed commitments towards universal health coverage