Short Form

Short Form Journalism by the Bhekisisa Team

Could better health for your baby come in a cardboard box?

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All the rage in Finland, 'Moses baskets' could soon be coming to South African shores.
Bikers travel to health communities to deliver TB treatment.

Bikers go full throttle to speed up TB cure in Zimbabwe

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A programme with the health department sees motorbikes being used to deliver drugs to people in far-flung places who can't afford the fare.

[PHOTOS]: ‘We need staff, psychological help’: Go inside a Gauteng COVID ICU fighting the...

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Driven by a more infectious new COVID variant, the second wave of South Africa’s coronavirus pandemic has seen considerably more infections than the first wave. This meant health workers have had to deal with more hospitalisations and deaths — and pressure. Bhekisisa visited George Mukhari Academic Hospital north of Tshwane to document the second wave realities experienced by doctors and nurses.
The Harare Central Hospital follows a ‘demedicalised’

Zimbabwe health workers fight the odds to provide free care to disabled children

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A Harare rehabilitation unit offers impaired youngsters free therapy and supports parents too.
Post-partum pregnancy can be prevented through correct contraceptive use.

SA’s midwives chart a new course

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Scandinavian expertise is helping to train top nurses in how to handle difficult pregnancies.
More than 10% of TB cases in Kenya occur among children

Finally, TB pills for children

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Tastier kid-friendly tablets will help take the guess work out of treating Kenya's tiniest TB patients.
There are fewer than 10 paediatric heart surgeons in South Africa's public health sector - forcing tiny patients to wait months for surgery.

When the tiniest hearts break: Behind SA’s shortage of paediatric heart surgeons

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The country can't produce its own paediatric heart surgeons. But that may be beginning to change, starting in Cape Town.

Blood on the floor, drips in the dark: Johannesburg is crumbling. Here’s how it...

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A combination of failures by the municipal, provincial and national government left a hospital in the south of Johannesburg without water or electricity for parts of November. Find out what’s behind the chaos.
A Doctors Without Borders

#AIDS2016: How a rural community helps each other stay on HIV treatment

An adherence club helped almost all patients stay on their treatment.
Caution needed: Dr Carol Benn says if a woman takes hormone replacement therapy for more than five years she risks 'fertilising' cancerous tissue in the breast.

The flush of hormonal success

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Replacement therapy for menopause symptoms is considered safe – if the breast cancer risk is addressed.
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.
Lifting a load: Aerobics is helping sometimes suspicious elderly people in Diepsloot to deal with mental illness in their families and community.

Gogos step up for peace of mind

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Depression among the elderly is largely overlooked, but exercise can help to counter it.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is a condition so severe it was classified in 2013 as a mood disorder in psychology's diagnostic bible.

When it’s not just PMS: Could your period be affecting your mental health?

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Science could be closer to unravelling the riddle of menstruation-related mood disorders
Selling sex

Selling sex

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From Amsterdam’s glittering canals to Durban’s dark streets, take a look at how the world legislates sex — and why it matters.
Fight the rot: With both her feet now amputated

When hospitals don’t make the cut

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Diabetic patients who aren't treated properly risk having the smallest cut lead to an amputated limb.

What’s pleasure got to do with sex ed? This project shows it can increase...

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The International Planned Parenthood Federation’s digital campaign Treasure Your Pleasure is using an evidence-based sex-positive approach to educate young Africans about safe sex.