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Malawi’s sick prisons: Inmates go hungry as budgets dwindle and food prices soar
As a food crisis unfolds in the country, prisons lack money to purchase even simple food stuffs such as maize flour and beans.
#AIDS2016: “I’ve taken control of my sex life. I use an HIV prevention pill.”
An HIV prevention pill can reduce HIV-negative people's chances of contracting HIV by more than 90%.
Condoms at school? Yes, says a new education policy
Parents and staff can no longer keep contraception out of schools in the case of children 12 years and older.
Bigger biceps aren’t always better
Men’s quest for the perfect body has reached the ‘bigorexia’ tipping point.
Hypnosis is not just about making you cluck like a chicken
The truth is, the phenomenon is not the mystical and magical art many assume it is.
Why SA’s cancer activists are stuck in an endless loop
There’s no sign that South Africa’s intellectual property laws will change anytime soon, public health experts say. That means pharmaceutical companies will keep abusing the country’s weak system — and keep the profits rolling in.
This is what life is like in the world’s last country to ban slavery
Photojournalist, Seif Kousmate, photographed and interviewed current and former slaves in Mauritania and got imprisoned by police in the process.
People living with disabilities forced into marriage and sexual violence
A new report uncovers the sad stories of Tanzanians with albinism and disabilities.
Your medical aid is going to change. Read Aaron Motsoaledi’s #NHI speech
New legislation will abolish co-payments and may look to go after medical aid scheme reserves.
Northern Cape Premier Sylvia Lucas pours salt on the wound
Experts say the vast sum spent by Sylvia Lucas on unhealthy food is indicative of a big fat problem.
Meet the doctors: Take a look at this country’s first crop of homegrown physicians
Finally capping its own medics, the country must now retain them and coax them into rural areas.
Why SA supermarkets should slash the price of these 10 foods by a fifth
The food industry will get a tax break to ease the effects of loadshedding on the cost of groceries. But there’s more that the industry can do to keep a basic basket of foods affordable, writes the head of the DG Murray Trust, David Harrison.
Ebola and Zika epidemics are driven by pathologies of society, not just a virus
Economic exploitation in the developing world has resulted in under-resourced and weak health systems that could not contain the spread of viruses.
Figures & feelings: How trust can help repair a broken health system
More than two decades ago, an unthinkable genocide rocked Rwanda. What happened next could be a study in how to remake a health system from its ashes and why metrics are a mix of evidence — and trust.
People need to know more about abortion and contraception
A number of fallacious assumptions undermine the effectiveness of measures to prevent or terminate a pregnancy, writes Catriona Macleod.