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eNCA
15-05-2025
- Health
- eNCA
Number of over 50s living with HIV doubles in a decade
JOHANNESBURG - The face of HIV in South Africa is changing — and it's growing older. A new analysis by the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism shows that the number of people over 50 living with HIV has more than doubled in the last decade.
News24
29-04-2025
- Health
- News24
ADHD cases are genetic. Can you outgrow it?
Up to 16% of school-aged children and 4% of adults have attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, show international studies. In South Africa, the proportion of primary school children with ADHD who use government health facilities is as low as 1.72% because the public sector doesn't have enough of the right health workers to diagnose people. In this podcast episode, Mia Malan speaks to psychiatrist Renata Schoeman, who is the co-author of South Africa's ADHD management guidelines and chairs the special interest ADHD group of the SA Society of Psychiatrists. Schoeman says over 10 000 studies show the brain, particularly the frontal lobes, of someone with ADHD looks different on scans from someone who doesn't have the condition. Eight in 10 people with the condition have a child, parent or sibling with it. Many adults only discover they have ADHD when their children get diagnosed and they recognise the symptoms in themselves. Malan asks Schoeman: can you outgrow the condition? Find out. Bhekisisa * This story was produced by the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. Sign up for the newsletter.
