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Altered states: Successful stage hypnotist Andre Grove directs one of his subjects.

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.
Spanish farm workers

Farmworkers: No gloves, no masks, no water

The Collective of African Workers, a grassroots organisation campaigning for an end to the shanty towns in one of Spain's most important farming regions.
Scientists say the current tests designed to detect even very low levels of HIV present in the body are simply not sensitive enough.

Villagers flock to take HIV tests

As a result of an NGO in the Eastern Cape using incentives to encourage people to check their status, HIV testing has tripled in four villages.
Painful process: Dental assistants want to be registered - a move opposed by the South African Dental Association.

Dental work’s a kick in the teeth

Many dental assistants in private practices are paid very little and have to do menial tasks.
Silicosis is a slowly progressing yet debilitating lung disease caused by inhaling microscopic silica dust particles that are mostly found in the ore of gold mines

Sick miners are ‘left with nothing’

Miners with silicosis and TB are entitled to a small payout, but don't claim because they are kept in the dark about their rights.
Free fall: Alcohol and drugs fuel the HIV infection rate

They suffer the cruelty of our care

SA society continues to betray traumatised young women who spiral into a life of drugs and abuse.
Women queue outside of a Malawian health facility for healthcare for their children. Moving rape crisis centres out of central hospitals in Malawi and into clinics closer to communities might increase the number of people who use them

Mother and child health must improve

Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.
Male sexual enhancement pills are considered to be one of the most counterfeited drugs in the world.

Online drugs a big turn-off

Despite the risks, many South Africans continue to buy black market aphrodisiacs over the internet.
Survivors: Phumeza Tisile and Xolelwa Joni went to Paris to tell a world conference about their battle with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

‘You can fight if you have support’

Two young women are proving to the world that the most deadly strain of TB can be beaten.
The toyi-toyiing "helps me to get rid of my frustrations at the hospital"

Ebony and ivory toyi-toyi in harmony

The toyi-toyiing "helps me to get rid of my frustrations at the hospital", says one doctor.
Where will newly qualified doctors go if provinces are being told to scale back staff under budget pressures?

Cost of negligence claims impacting medical specialist recruitment

Medical malpractice litigation is preventing young doctors from entering high-risk fields of medicine.
Many people still don’t know their rights under the law and when they can get an abortion.

How readers like you are helping flip the script on illegal abortion providers

We teamed up with readers and translators to create some of the first graphics ever on abortion in all South Africa's official languages.
Although the scheme's white paper was released at an economically uncertain time.

Motsoaledi accused of trying to control private health prices

The director of the Free Market Foundation suggests that an inquiry into private healthcare was deceptively orchestrated by the health minister.
Three out of four SA men with hypertension don't know they have this condition

Silent killer: SA men unaware of hypertension

Three out of four SA men with hypertension don't know they have this condition, which is responsible for the deaths of 230 South Africans daily.
Bank on this: A doctor stores breast milk at the human milk bank in Lima.

Give and take: When the profit motive clouds milk donation

Breast milk may well be an elixir for premature babies. But this ‘white gold’ can be hard to find.
If the percentage of overweight people continues to rise at its current rate

Obese outnumber undernourished

There are almost two and a half times more overweight people than undernourished, with almost 30% of the global population weighing too much.