Rape survivor care crisis - mines the worst?

Rape Crisis Volunteerism

Rape survivor needs help with intimate relationships

Before being too hard on yourself for "messing up relationships," try to remember that being raped may make it hard for anyone to have an emotionally or sexually intimate relationship. Since it was your best friend, someone you trusted, who assaulted you, you may feel betrayed. Some rape survivors who were virgins at the time of the assault also confuse being raped with having had sex. Rape use...

Indian Food Crisis: Worst Is Not over

For the last few years India has been facing food crisis and as result, the prices of food grains have been on the very high side affecting the purchasing power of the rural and urban poor. As a result, Government’s policies and programmes in regard to reduction in poverty are being severely affected, leading to addition in the crisis. This year due lesser rain the crisis is becoming more sever...

Primary Care of the Prostate Cancer Survivor.

This summary of the American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care Guidelines targets primary care physicians who coordinate care of prostate cancer survivors with subspecialists. Prostate cancer survivors should undergo prostate-specific antigen screening every six to 12 months and digital rectal examination annually. Surveillance of patients who choose watchful waiting for their pr...

Collaborative push to address TB crisis on mines.

In March last year Churchyard helped facilitate a pivotal petition appealing for urgent intervention to address TB on the mines to then national health minister Barbara Hogan and the Minister of Minerals and Energy Affairs, Buyelwa Sonjica. It was signed by the leading local and international TB control experts and led, he said, to the mining industry taking ‘great offence’. The health policy c...