Brothers for Life joins millions of South Africans in mourning the passing of community activist and veteran actor Mr Patrick Molefe Shai. His involvement with the Brothers for Life campaign from inception thirteen years ago has touched and mobilised millions of men and boys to do the right thing and toward ending gender based violence.
ABBEY MAKOE HEALTHY Living Alliance (HEALA), the Centre for Communication Impact (CCI), which is a health and social behaviour change and communication organisation have, together with their partners, lambasted finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s silence about their repeated calls to hike the so-called “sugar tax”. Food Policy Project manager at the CCI, Selaelo Mabela, says: “We
The dual GBVF and COVID-19 pandemics jeopardize women and children’s safety. We have celebrated this Women’s Month in the peak of COVID-19’s parallel pandemic whose effects cut across every aspect of society. Women, children, persons with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans-sexual, queer, intersex, a-sexual+) and other vulnerable persons are not spared but are more
Write-up: The #whatsinmyfood campaign in partnership with HEALA aims to encourage South Africans to question the contents of the processed foods they eat and understand how high levels of sugar, salt and saturated fat negatively affect their health. The overarching message of this campaign is “you have the right to know what’s in your food”. As part
With funding from USAID, CCI is working with the National Department of Health, Provincial Departments of Health and other partners to implement Risk Communication and Community Engagement in all nine Provinces of South Africa. Specifically, CCI is mandated to support the following RCCE competencies. Risk Communication Systems: Support the South African Government to engage with
CCI supports the Department of Basic Education with the vaccination roll-out campaign The Department of Basic Education will, today, begin vaccinating teachers and non-teaching staff in all public and private sector. The DBE sector was allocated 300,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccines that arrived in the country last week. On Friday, 18 June
CCI is not only leading in vaccination communication, the CEO, Ms Claudia Shilumani and executive members are leading by example for taking their COVID-19 vaccination as part of the Sisonke’s extended healthcare worker vaccination programme recently. She was joined by two members of the Executive Management Team, Sakumzi Ntayiya and Mogale Mashiapata, they received the jab
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Obesity is recognised as both a disease in its own right and a condition that increases the likelihood of developing a wide range of non-communicable diseases. Less well-known is the fact that obesity also increases the likelihood that infectious diseases will lead to serious consequences. This is most clearly apparent in the global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the resulting pandemic of COVID-19.
