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Stricter rules: Why better food regulations will help us fight obesity
Health problems linked to obesity — such as diabetes or heart disease — cost South Africa’s public health system up to R36 billion in 2020. In the latest episode of Bhekisisa’s monthly TV show, Health Beat, Mia Malan spoke to public health researcher Susan Goldstein about how regulations about how foods are sold can help to prevent obesity.
In rural Kenya, camel clinics bring much needed care to those who need it
Healthcare for Kenya's semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country's most remote villages.
Graphic of the day: Where are South Africa’s ambulances?
Think that emergency care is just a call away? You might want to think again.
Aphrodisiacs? They’re touch and go
For added excitement and endurance in your sex life, maybe skip the sex drugs.
Most mentally ill South Africans won’t be helped
Around a fifth of South Africans suffer from a mental disorder - but 75% don't receive the care they need.
‘Cancer treatment in the North West is impossible’
Activists say that at least one patient has been trying to get treatment since 2013.
How the health department bends the law to gag health workers – report
Follow the launch of a report of the Campaign for Free Expression that delves into the importance of freedom of speech for health workers to curb the collapse of South Africa’s public health system.
The cost of skin cancer: South Africa is spending more than it should
Sunny weather in South Africa makes skin cancer a risk for many people.
‘Most complex health crisis in history’: Congo struggles to contain Ebola
Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome DRC’s deadly outbreak.
This country has upheld its ban on gay sex. Here’s why it could be...
“The failure to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations will undermine Kenya’s aim of reaching universal health coverage,” UNAids says.
Money can’t be the only motive for developing life-saving medicines
Will the world act now to be ready for the next big outbreak?
Motsoaledi frenzy over NHI
His reasoning has come in for much criticism, but the minister has no wish to continue the debate.
Free pads: ‘KZN girls miss three days of school a month because of their...
The province is providing free sanitary pads to learners, so what's stopping a national roll-out?
Why we can’t afford to leave migrants out of our COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
Excluding refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people in public health programmes is likely to have far-reaching implications for global COVID vaccination roll-outs.
Report suggests ARV and TB drug supply woes a ‘national crisis’
At least in one in every five public health facilities in the country has run out of HIV and/or TB drugs in the last two months, says a report.
Murder charges for botched circumcisions in Eastern Cape
Autopsy reports show that some of the 30 initiates who died last month in the Eastern Cape were assaulted by traditional surgeons.