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Our immune system is meant to protect us, but sometimes it doesn’t work as it should. Autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, can affect how our immune system responds to even healthy organs. Sun Health continues chat with...
When it comes to losing weight, regular exercise or physical activity plays an integral role. However, as important as it is to work out, it is as crucial to avoid injury. This can be achieved through effective low-impact exercises, which not only...
Government’s continued struggle to finance all qualifying students for tertiary education and sustain funding has necessitated the formation of a Tertiary Education Student Financing Policy.Currently, government is the main sponsor of tertiary...
We continue with the mind blowing, thought provoking and profound wisdom quotes from H.H. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. !10 "Life is a combination of effort and effortlessness; deep rest and dynamic activity; passion and dispassion." !11 "A Life is...
Believing that your life has a purpose on its own leads to happiness and health. There have been various research findings notably that having a purpose in life helps strengthen resilience when one is facing adversity. People with a purpose in life...
Dichaba Siane is the Botswana-Hardvard AIDS Institute Partnership Community Advisory Board (CAB) Chairperson and also a representative of ICAB and CSS (Community Scientific Sub-Committee) in the US. He talks to SunHealth about his work.Tell us about...
The Botswana Medicines Regulatory Authority (“BoMRA”) has cautioned against the rise in the sale, promotion, and advertisement of personal lubricants and “vaginal care products”, warning they "may pose health risks to consumers". And health...
During the winter months, many tend to get lazy to workout but there are many ways to stay active and warm anyways. You can walk to work or to school, take a fitness class at the gym, join a community aerobics class, work out to a video at home, or...
Some formula milk manufacturers are paying social media platforms and influencers to gain direct access to pregnant women and mothers. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the companies are seeking to increase the use of breast-milk...
Botswana, like most developing countries, still needs substantial investment in key infrastructure. More recently, the financing of infrastructure has increasingly taken the form of project finance through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model...
Botswana has high rate of Gender Based Violence (GBV). This human rights violation permeates into the workplace. Statistics by the United Nations Population Fund indicate that in Botswana, one in three women has experienced GBV in their...
It is important to get both the flu shot and the Covid-19 vaccine, especially if one is at risk of severe Covid-19 or flu infection, according to medical experts. COVID and influenza or flu are both infectious respiratory diseases. COVID is caused by...
A male contraceptive pill is on the horizon following the development of a birth control drug that’s 99 per cent effective in preventing pregnancy in mice.Although there are contraceptives for men and women, it is often assumed that the burden lies...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked countries to make medical abortions safer for women by allowing easier access to pills. In new guidelines issued recently, the WHO also suggested that telemedicine be used to conduct needed medical...
It seems incredible in this Age of Pandemics that a dozen broad-spectrum antiviral drugs have been largely ignored in the fight against Covid-19. This class of drugs works by inhibiting a critically important human protein called nuclear-factor...
Botswana Medicines Regulatory Authority (BoMRA) is investigating if ranitidine, a common heartburn medicine, has a chemical contamination, which could cause cancer. The drug is also known as Zantac, Uptake, Austin and R-Lok. BoMRA issued a...
Parents have been urged to respond early to babies showing disability symptoms, as this would enable them to get treatment at an early stage. Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by injury to the brain before birth, during birth or after...
Public Health Specialist, Dr Orapeleng Phuswane-Katse has warned women against using garlic for yeast infections, citing risk for further infections.She explained that while there are a few studies to support the claim that garlic has anti-fungal...
Bubbly James Nkomo still exudes oodles of a positive spirit and is not deterred by a genetic blood condition that predisposes him to frequent bleeding. He has since found a way to live life fully with haemophilia, a condition he was diagnosed with...
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