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Discover Healthier
Azania Mosaka hosts DiscoverHealthier – a podcast that tells stories of inspirational people and shares thoughts of specialist guests. Join the conversations and build your understanding of health conditions, healthcare cover, living a healthier life and innovations that benefit our future wellbeing...
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Women making waves in digital healthcare
Azania speaks to two women at Discovery who are challenging the status quo every day. Not only are they at the forefront of building innovative digita...
Discovery Foundation invests R261 million into South African public health specialists
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how important thriving healthcare systems are. A number of South African public sector doctors at the COVID-19 f...
Bringing gender-based violence into the light: Part 3
For survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), fear and shame are overwhelming emotions that may prevent them accessing the help they need and deserve....
Bringing gender-based violence into the light: Part 2
South Africa has one of the world’s highest gender-based violence (GBV) rates in the world. Now, #DiscoverYourVoice against GBV by listening to Azania...
Bringing gender-based violence into the light: Part 1
Did you know that South Africa has one of the world’s highest gender-based violence (GBV) rates in the world? President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that,...
Discovery Health’s response to COVID-19: Giving businesses and their people much-needed support
Seemingly overnight, businesses both large and small have found themselves navigating an unprecedented operating environment with profound impact on e...
Discovery Health’s response to COVID-19: Free online doctor consultations for all South Africans
When 33-year old Matshepo Matlejoane, began to feel unwell in March 2020, her anxiety about contracting COVID-19 escalated. However, as she tells Azan...
Discovery Health’s response to COVID-19: Turn a top hotel into a COVID-19 isolation facility
Are you concerned about contracting COVID-19 but having nowhere to self-isolate, away from loved ones? That’s exactly how Eugene Roux felt when he con...
Discovery Health’s response to COVID-19: Developing a healthcare response to a global pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the importance of access to the right medical cover and healthcare support. Azania interviews Chris Jones, Head...
Hlokomela Healthcare project: Changing the face of CSI for maximum impact
In her role as Head of Corporate Sustainability at Discovery, Ruth Lewin has made it her mission to apply Discovery’s expertise, intellectual capital...
Hlokomela Healthcare project: investigating 14 years of life-saving work
In Sepedi, “Hlokomela” means “to care”. And, that is exactly what the Hlokomela healthcare project does for low-income employees on farms, in nature c...
Umthombo Youth Development Foundation: Becoming doctors against all odds
Dentist, Dr Sabelo Mngomezulu, grew up herding cattle, expecting to drop out of school and work on the mines. Today he has pristine dental rooms at Mo...
Umthombo Youth Development Foundation: Dr Lungile Nxumalo’s inspiring journey
She is a medical officer, chair of the Rural Doctors Association of South Africa, an UYDF graduate and trustee, as well as a princess of the Nxumalo r...
Umthombo Youth Development Foundation: How have so many rural youth become healthcare professionals?
Young people in rural areas usually attend under-resourced schools and end up working on mines or herding cattle. What would happen if they could fini...
Raising healthy children
Raising healthy children is one of the toughest challenges facing today’s parents. That’s why this podcast is a must-listen for parents and caregivers...
Healthy moms and babies: Specialist psychiatrist, Dr Bavi Vythilingum on perinatal depression
For many moms, pre- and post-natal depression (also called perinatal depression) and other mood disorders, make the process of a growing and caring fo...
Healthy moms and babies: Developmental Paediatrician, Dr Reneva Petersen on giving baby the best possible start to life
We have started to develop a good idea of why the period from conception to age two is the most critical time for the development of a person’s mental...
Healthy moms and babies: Psychologist, Katharine Frost on The First 1000 days
Are you planning or expecting a baby? How well do you understand the concept of “The First 1000 days”? This is a window of phenomenal opportunity to d...
Healthy employees and healthy businesses
To really determine the health of a business, we must take a holistic view – one that includes the health of its employees. Their health determines th...
Understand mental illness: Gugu Masondo and Dr Nokukhanya Khanyile
Azania interviews two brave young women – Gugu Masondo and Dr Nokukhanya Khanyile – about their personal journeys through mental illness. Each has a u...
Understand mental illness: Dr Noluthando Nematswerani and Cassey Chambers
Have you ever felt sad or down, found it hard to concentrate, had excessive fear or worry? Ever had mood changes with highs or lows, significant tired...
Understand mental illness: Dr Sebolelo Seape
Azania speaks to the dynamic Dr Sebolelo Seape, a psychiatrist whose passion for empowering others towards a deep understanding of mental illness and...
Discovering the Art and Science of Breathwork with Dr Ela Manga
Breathwork Africa founder Dr Ela Manga shares how to harness energy and peace by using the ebbs and flows of the breath.
Fight the call of the fridge!
Vitality dietician Terry Harris unpacks why many of us can’t resist emotional eating right now.
Plus: her tips for healthy snacking and m...
Maintain your Mental Wellbeing - Laetitia du Plessis
Laetitia du Plessis is a brave, passionate and accomplished woman. She is also super-fit and strives towards ever-healthier ways of fuelling her mind...
Maintain your Mental Wellbeing - Letshego Zulu
When her beloved husband Gugu passed away on Mount Kilimanjaro three years ago, South Africans all mourned alongside Letshego Zulu. Now, Letshego chat...
Maintain your Mental Wellbeing - The EXPERT Interviews: Prof. Renata Schoeman and Dr Seranne Motilal
Our mental health is absolutely fundamental to our overall health as it affects how we think, feel, and act, how we handle stress, relate to others, a...
Understanding COVID-19 Part 2
As the outbreak of COVID-19 continues to spread across South Africa, we have a narrow window of opportunity to slow the spread. Social distancing is o...
Understanding COVID-19 Part 1
It’s hard to keep up with the pace of news around the global health emergency that is the novel coronavirus 2019 – now known as COVID-19. We have an o...
The Future Of Healthcare
Hear all about current digital healthcare services and what tech and other developments mean for consumers and providers. We chat to Discovery Health’...
Antimicrobial Resistance Part 1: Flu, Antibiotics And You
This two-part podcast in an eye opener about using antibiotics and why they could stop working in the future. In part one we talk about you and the fl...
Antimicrobial Resistance Part 2: Surviving A Deadly Superbug
In part two of our investigation into Antimicrobial Resistance we cross to experts located in the UK and the US. We explore the global challenge of an...
Healthy Heart, Healthy Life
This fascinating podcast episode brings complete understanding to the symptoms, risk factors and complications of heart disease - facts that everyone...
Going To Hospital? What You Need To Know
Azania Mosaka explores every aspect of what it means to go to hospital. She chats to Jean Slabbert about being diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica – a...
Debunking Diabetes
“Debunking diabetes” gives you a complete understanding of an often silent condition. Learn all you need to know about preventing type 2 diabetes, and...
Understanding The World Of Healthcare
A medical aid is similar to a “stokvel”. People contribute and agree to the rules and benefits. Similarly, in a medical scheme, the money in the pool...