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Chanda Mollers teaches yoga to Sister Abegail Nhleko's children.

A mother to 30; a nurse to thousands

Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.
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.
Helping hands: Zethu Mqopi* and her daughter Sisanda*. Zethu has learnt to carry out household chores

‘If they are raped, then so what?’

Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.
Soured celebration: Photographs of Winnie Makalateng's grandson brings back memories of her daughter

Mothers haunted by hospital hell

Our children’s lives were lost due to the negligence of the Mpumalanga health system, say grieving mothers.
Costly exercise: When Rio de Janeiro celebrated World Aids Day in 2007 it was with the knowledge that patent laws had driven up the cost of Brazil's Aids programme.

Brazil’s sick of patent exploitation

The country is fighting the intellectual property laws that hiked up the cost of its HIV programme.
Rooibos tea's lack of caffeine improves its health benefits.

Green rooibos takes fight to diabetes

An antioxidant found in tea brewed from the indigenous plant offers hope for new treatments.
Individual healthcare centres are forced to charge fees

Patient fees cripple Zim’s healthcare

Skewed state funding has left many centres dependent on fees that patients can't afford, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.
People living with HIV are mostly scrupulous about getting check-ups.

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.
Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.

Medical back-up in Pondo initiation

Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.
Phindile Sithole-Spong says that while being HIV positive is hard because of the stigmas surrounding the disease

‘I still have sex, even with HIV’

Two young people speak out about life, and love, and the very real risk of rejection.
Survivor: Douglas Muzanenhamo says Harare Remand Prison was hell on earth.

Nursing Zim prisons back to health

One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.
Crack down: Poor implementation of the health department's policy on foreigners' rights to healthcare results in the neglect of many emergencies

Foreign mom’s neglect turns fatal

Nurses and doctors are 'forced' to treat non-residents, but such care is too often perilous.
Post-partum pregnancy can be prevented through correct contraceptive use.

SA’s midwives chart a new course

Scandinavian expertise is helping to train top nurses in how to handle difficult pregnancies.
Geofrey Yambayamba is taking his passion for pharmaceutics to Tanzania's government to get his country manufacturing medicine.

Create drugs, create self-reliance

A young pharmacist is driving a project to get Tanzania to make more of its own medicine.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi

Motsoaledi: Why I use government hospitals

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has promised to get state facilities running to the highest standards.
Trevor Mundel at the Nwamatibjana health centre in Mozambique.

‘NHI will benefit the entire region’

An effective healthcare system will free up donor money for more desperate countries.