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South Africa has thousands of potential COVID-19 quarantine hotels. But they’re empty
Gauteng — the province with the most confirmed COVID-19 cases — is also one of the two provinces with the lowest uptake of quarantine facilities.
Why COVID made autopsies soar
Autopsies offer detail that cannot be found in the living. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a resurgence in these procedures — but not without fear.
The WHO, the drug & women’s right to choose: The story behind dolutegravir
Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.
Pandas or people? When the fight to save the planet pits conservation against indigenous...
A deadly conflict is brewing between those forced out of the DRC's Kahuzi-Biéga national park and the rangers charged with protecting it.
Free State’s Malakoane calls activists’ slogans insulting
The province's health MEC has condemned the slogans marchers on the department have been chanting, calling them insulting and inappropriate.
Dr Harry Surtie Hospital: Double-edged sword of technology
If the new Dr Harry Surtie Hospital has all the latest tech, why are patients complaining?
Four times healthcare workers came up with creative solutions to coronavirus problems
Heatlhcare workers have some creative solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the COVID-19 response, like shortages of masks & ventilators.
Bundle of jitters: How these community health workers are helping moms cope with the...
Pregnancy can be a time of joy - and sadness. Many pregnant women and mothers of infants in lower-income communities acknowledge feeling depressed during this time. Here’s how community health workers helped alleviate this.
Pinch, prick & go: Why protecting yourself against HIV could become as simple as...
Imagine if every young woman had the option of getting a simple implant at school that could cut her risk of contracting HIV by 75%?
Q & A: Our COVID vaccines have arrived. Here’s what will happen next
One million COVID-19 vaccines will land at OR Tambo today. The jabs will be reserved for health workers. But how will they get to the workers and what will happen to the shots once they get here? We break it down for you.
System is in good health, insists MEC Malakoane
Free State Health MEC Benny Malakoane has accused the M&G of sensationalist reporting, but warned that his department will run out of money this year.
From critical condition to stable
The nation's healthcare system reflects the actions of the ministers responsible for it over the years.
Teenage mothers are not ‘terrorists’ who need to be punished
But few will to listen to researchers who refute society’s accepted notion that teenage pregnancy is damaging to the child, mother and society.
#AIDS2016: Employees, particularly domestic workers, report forced HIV testing
Coerced testing usually follows employer offers to pay for private medical care.
Hindsight is 2020: Three lessons from our second wave
Specialist scientists, masks, hand sanitiser and stricter rules for liquor sales will be crucial to easing the burden of South Africa’s future COVID-19 waves, experts say.