Growing problem of HIV and hypertension
Three-quarters of people on antiretroviral treatment at a clinic in Khayelitsha were also being treated for hypertension.
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Many can’t afford a healthy diet
The Heart and Stroke Foundation has urged South Africans to check their blood pressure readings and follow a healthy diet – but poverty and the high food prices put a healthy diet out of reach of many people in the country.
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“I thought I was too young to have a chronic illness”
Cynthia Maseko, 31, is many things – a mother, wife and nationally published citizen journalist. She is also living with hypertension. She tells her story.
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Gogo takes to the pitch to beat high blood pressure
As the globe’s best footballers take to the pitch for the World Cup, 60-year-old grandmother of ten Lizzy Jockia has taken to the field to save her life.
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Beating hypertension, fighting high food prices
A stoke left her half paralysed and unable to speak properly but ten months later, Elsie Malaza is determined to walk the road to recovery.
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Who to trust with my heart pains, asks confused mother
Mumu Ngcamane, 31, was diagnosed with high blood pressure when she was just 14. Seventeen years later, she still gets pains in her heart area, but her trust of health care workers has been damaged.
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‘Lifestyle diseases’ plaguing poor
High blood pressure, diabetes and other “lifestyle diseases” are no longer just for the rich and are wreaking havoc among South Africa’s poor.
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Clinic tells sick woman to get taxi to hospital
Naome Chavhunga was dizzy and vomiting when her son called an ambulance. A day later, no ambulance had arrived. She managed to get to her local clinic but when nurses urgently referred her to hospital, emergency transport was still out of reach.
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Government unveils NCD strategic plan
With non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounting for almost half of all deaths in South Africa, the department of health has released a new strategy to curb rising rates of diseases such as diabetes, cancer and hypertension.
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Hypertension affects all South Africans, not just whites
PRESS RELEASE: The statement by statistician-general Pali Lehohla that unhappiness is the leading cause of hypertension is not only inaccurate; it creates a dangerous illusion for South Africans.
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