Emerging research on violence against women and children finds that mental illness is common in women who’ve experienced intimate partner violence as well as men who’ve experienced childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
- Professor Gray, who is the CEO and president of the Medical Research Council, was screened and vaccinated at UCT’s Lung Institute on Tuesday.
- It is time to have an honest conversation about alcohol and violence in our country. Among the devastating epidemics the country faces, South Africa also has an injury epidemic, which places an enormous burden on our health system and society at large, let alone on those injured and those near to them.
- About 17 million South Africans rely on social grants for their household income and food security. So how have the twin components of social distancing and economic relief measures been experienced by poor South Africans dependent on social grants?
- Professor Glenda E Gray’s CV is a thing to be marvelled at. One insight gleaned by skimming the 66-page document is not about the detail and variety of her illustrious career so much as that some people seem to live more, do more, think more, read more and write more in the same life span that the rest of us are, more or less, given.