#SliceofLife: I uncovered a child sex trafficking ring in my grade one class

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When a primary school teacher in the Western Cape suspected that one of her pupils was being sexually abused, she did everything she could to help. Here’s what happened next.

Something in the water: Did gas exploration poison this community?

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Doctors in this country are saying an outbreak of mysterious deaths all have one thing in common: How close they are to this international oil company.
Some women find it hard to leave their abusers for economic and emotional reasons and feel 'stuck' in their situation.

A fist and a hard place

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Some women find it hard to leave their abusers for economic and emotional reasons and feel 'stuck' in their situation.
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

What’s the one thing rape crisis centres in SA & Malawi are missing?

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Why the woes facing South Africa’s Thuthuzela Care Centres may not be as unique as we thought.
Lesotho netcare hospital

Why the public-private partnership to build Lesotho’s only specialist hospital floundered

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It was hailed as a revolution in private investment in healthcare in Africa but almost a decade after it was opened, Lesotho’s only specialist hospital takes up almost a third of the country’s entire health budget. Now, we may finally know why.
Everyday life in Cairo: but the city has become a hub for the organ trade.

Organ trafficking: ‘They locked me in and took my kidney’

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Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are travelling to Egypt to sell body parts to pay for their passage.

If the price is right: The anti-HIV jab could be in clinics by August...

South Africa’s medicines regulator will announce a decision on the approval of a two-monthly HIV prevention jab within days. If the shot is approved, the health department could start rolling it out on a large scale within nine months — but that depends on the injection’s price.
US professional societies urge women should be warned that water births remain largely untested within the scientific community.

Could a water birth be right for you? Weigh up the pros and cons

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More South African parents are choosing to bring their baby into the world with a splash, but is it better than conventional births?
Impressed: Researcher Ché  Makanjee is counselled before his HIV test at Charlotte Maxeke hospital.

Private sector lags in HIV testing

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Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.

What developing countries can teach the Global North about how to respond to a...

When it comes to leadership and innovation, there's much that industrialised nations can learn.
The high court hearing of aparthied-era biological project head Wouter Basson has been postponed.

How long do we have to wait for Dr Death to be punished?

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The much-anticipated sanctioning of Wouter Basson has still not happened, 13 years later.
Confronting the cough: An informal health camp in Mukono district.

Kampala is seizing TB by the horns

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A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city's slums.
A pack-a-day smoking habit during pregnancy will reduce a baby's birth weight by an average of 230g

‘I saw the world through the blurry lens of an oxygen tent’

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With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?
11-year-old Violet O’Dell had a large

Light at the end of the scalpel for more targeted brain surgery

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A brave little girl inspired a new ‘tumour paint’ to indicate to surgeons which tissue to remove.
Loud and clear: A billboard in Lilongwe

Malawi to halt prosecutions against LGBTI community

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Malawi says it will no longer enforce anti-homosexuality laws but dangerous homophobia persists on the country's streets - and in its clinics.

The unbearable loneliness of COVID-19

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There are no visiting hours for COVID-19 patients. Instead, there’s anxiety, fear, stigma and potential grief. But there’s also — at least some — resilience.