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Hospitals introduce sign language to bridge gap between the deaf and care
Some hospitals are introducing sign language to help deaf patients.
How to get South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine
These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.
The boy who lifts Hobeni’s spirits
Sihle Batiya's luckier than most – but the odds are stacked against kids with Down's syndrome in the Eastern Cape.
Breathing in a deadly dust: How a drop of blood can help
A new tool may help to keep workers who breathe in silica dust safe from silicosis — at less than R50 a prick.
Go inside the trucker craze fuelling a blackmarket in dangerous ‘sex enhancers’
The products themselves could be dangerous and are likely to encourage high-risk sexual behaviour.
This former dictator invented a fake HIV cure, but banned female genital cutting
Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting was good for democracy, but but bad for women's bodies.
Fetal illness is scarring the Karoo
The effects of alcoholism on pregnancy are keenly felt beyond just the Western Cape’s winelands.
‘There is hope this evil illness will not befall us again’
The residents of a Nigerian village had no health services, save for traditional methods, to treat those with a fever and a rash.
#FreeToBleed: ‘A pool of blood gushed down my thighs. My white socks were red.’
Shame doesn't start when menstruation begins. It is built in slow steps.
It’s a nightmare when mental health medicine runs out
Mental health patients in Johannesburg's East Rand are hard hit by the unavailability of medication.
Double stigma leaves gay men with little hope
Stereotyping prevents men who sleep with other men from accessing proper treatment and prevention of HIV infection.
‘No home, no money, no medicine – but who cares? I don’t exist’
Introduce harm-reduction and HIV programmes – especially for heroin users – before it's too late.
Cuffed for no crime, kicked to the kerb
Instead of the care she sought, a vulnerable patient found further distress in a PE hospital.
Therapists test psychedelic chaos to cure depression and addiction
Psychiatrists have since turned to antidepressants, mood stabilisers and antipsychotics that aren’t curative.
Harsh price of HIV-linked longevity
HIV+ people on ARVs are now living longer lifespans. But the virus's associated diseases could put an unbearable strain on the health system.
Aids most prevalent cause of early deaths in SA
Aids kills more people prematurely in SA than another other disease – in sharp contrast to two decades ago, which set them at just 12%.