Cape Winelands under-18s ready for first vaccine
Children between the ages of 12 and 17 in the Cape Winelands District appeared eager to receive their first...
Category: Health
HealthCheck headache: SU student denied access to Campus Health
A Stellenbosch University (SU) student claimed that Campus Health Services (CHS) recently failed to follow proper protocol when she...
App aiming to identify TB cough receives R48 million boost
A grant of R48 million is currently facilitating the development of a smartphone app that will be able to...
Cannabis & Cannabidiol: Mother Nature’s medicine?
An alternative approach to alleviate pain, anxiety and insomnia is seemingly on the rise, according to an article published...
Significant increase in need for SU’s free counselling services during Covid-19
During 2020 and 2021, the Centre for Student Counselling and Development (CSCD) at Stellenbosch University (SU) had to buy...
Creating new narratives on early pregnancies
Warning: This article makes mention of sexual assault Young women who experience earlier pregnancies are often subjected to large-scale...
SU investigates the possibility of mandatory vaccinations
Stellenbosch University (SU) has assembled a task team to investigate the possibility of making vaccinations mandatory across the university’s...
Battling barriers to healthcare in Cape Winelands farming communities
Accessing healthcare should be a straightforward matter for all South Africans, but for some of those who live and...
Where does the anti-vaccination movement come from?
Anti-vaccination movements have been prominent across South Africa since the initial vaccine rollout began in December 2020. Have you...
Art initiative tackles stigma around mental illness
Stellenbosch University’s (SU) departments of physiological sciences and visual arts recently collaborated with Kayamandi artists on a transdisciplinary art...