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How many of these iconic protest posters can you recognise?
Here's the story of the Treatment Action Campaign or how a handful of people created a global movement that changed the world.
Shots, myths & cash: The perilous road to curbing cancer
Before 2011, this country couldn’t screen for cervical cancer let alone prevent it. Since then everything’s changed.
What it’s like to be hospitalised and diabetic: ‘Vaccination saved my life’
Karyn Maughan lives with diabetes and was partially vaccinated when she contracted the virus that causes COVID-19. But because of vaccination she survived the illness — unlike two of her unvaccinated colleagues, who also had diabetes, and died.
#SliceOfLife: ‘I shared my abortion experience on Facebook and it went viral’
A horrifying experience at an illegal abortion provider led Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile to use social media to help women access safe abortion services
The flush of hormonal success
Replacement therapy for menopause symptoms is considered safe – if the breast cancer risk is addressed.
How a dying woman’s bed was taken by an ANC official
In the Free State, access to health services can depend on who you know, as the tragic case of one woman illustrates.
Five good reasons to ditch chemical hair relaxers this December
Black women, beware: your pursuit of straight, silky locks may be detrimental to your health.
Meet the man behind the search for his child who died on #Bosasa’s watch
When this toddler died at Leratong Hospital, his body disappeared. Here’s what happened when his parents went back there more than a decade later.
Prosthetics give the poor a leg up
An NGO is changing lives by giving prosthetic limbs to amputees from rural and poor areas.
“People have normalised rape … but no one talks about abortion. When I do,...
With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or other homemade remedies.
#QuarantineChronicles: The pen
This South African has been quarantined for weeks. He doesn’t mind spending time alone, but these days he finds himself more and more puzzled by people, their habits, and strangely their attitude towards pens.
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.
‘In that moment, it was clear Bongani was destined for great things’
Late UCT Medical School dean Bongani Mayosi pioneered the response to a little known but common heart disease at home and across the continent.
Unearthing the salt hidden in your diet
Some of your favourite comfort food could be concealing a killer.
Organ trafficking: ‘They locked me in and took my kidney’
Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are travelling to Egypt to sell body parts to pay for their passage.
Bigger biceps aren’t always better
Men’s quest for the perfect body has reached the ‘bigorexia’ tipping point.