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Joan van Dyk is senior health journalist at Bhekisisa.
A doctor bends down to check young cancer patient's heartbeat.

From the mouths of babes: This is what it’s like to...

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Young girls pose with boxes of Marlboro cigarettes.

New smoke signals: Is Big Tobacco using influencers to illegally punt...

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Lung health experts are concerned about the long term affects of vaping. Should you be too?

Smoke, spies and lies: Should you throw away your e-cigarette?

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Would you betray your partner in crime if it meant you could avoid jail? Here's how this mentality can push up the price of medicines.

SA just endorsed a draft resolution that could bring Big Pharma...

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Here's what you missed at this week's World Health Organisation

Seven things that will make you think twice about the cost...

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José Malumbu has been mourning his son's death for over a decade.

Meet the man behind the search for his child who died...

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South African doctors are giving antibiotics to healthy patients

Undercover researchers went into doctors’ rooms. You won’t believe what they...

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This family's son

Bosasa to dead toddler’s family: If you want answers, you’ll have...

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Tender delays have pushed a shortage of the popular birth control shot Nur-Isterate into its second year.

This popular birth control shot is out of stock for the...

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[WATCH] Busted: Three myths about drug addictionvideo

[WATCH] Busted: Three myths about drug addiction

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Blood cancer patients such as Retha Wessels are forced to get a life-saving drug illegally to avoid paying thousands for it each month.

He would ransom the pills for something more precious than profit:...

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This is how a SA toddler died at the #Bosasa-run Lindelavideo

This is how a SA toddler died at the #Bosasa-run Lindela

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Bosasa, Gavin Watson & the human cost of corruption

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Leaving home means leaving family - and could have health implicationsvideo

Leaving home means leaving family – and could have health implications

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Angela Baloyi no longer sleeps in the room she shared with her five-year-old brother after a man snuck in one night and raped her. She was eight months’ pregnant.

‘I didn’t think it was necessary to use condoms because I...

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Amelie Chauke was able to keep up with her healthcare on the go and ensure her baby was born HIV negative with the help of farm-based clinics.

Plant, pick, pack: Finding Mpumalanga’s missing fruit pickers

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