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MDGs: Child and maternal health needs critical care
Despite increased efforts to improve child and maternal health, countries are still lagging behind in meeting their Millennium Development Goals.
Cervical cancer’s deadly contradiction
Despite cervical cancer being the most preventable form of cancer, it is afflicting more South African women than any other kind.
Viruses, vaccines and superbugs: The biggest health stories of 2016
This year wasn’t pretty but from its ashes may rise important scientific advances that could change the course of history.
Health matters: Let’s Bhekisisa it
The M&G's new health journalism centre is ready to make its mark, scrutinise and inform.
The poison peaks of Dandora: Why plastic bag bans aren’t enough to cut pollution...
Kenya banned single-use plastic bags in 2017, but Nairobi’s waste collectors are still inundated with plastic. Can a new law pin responsibility on the manufacturers?
In Marikana’s shadow: One in four women in Rustenburg has been raped, says study
As South Africa marks the anniversary of the massacre, a new study reveals how women’s bodies are a battleground in the country’s platinum belt.
Taken by storm: Why climate change will make transactional sex more common
Researchers say transactional sex will become more common because of a rise in climate change-related droughts and floods. Droughts and floods cause financial hardship, and therefore increase the market for sex in exchange for rewards.
Impoverished patients benefit from rejected drug patent
After a seven-year battle, India's government has successfully defended its right to reject drug patents if a medicine doesn't deserve one.
Go inside SA’s biggest hospital during a national strike
Bhekisisa health reporter Jesse Copelyn is inside Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, where nurses have downed tools as part of a national strike – the third labour action for 2022.
Should you believe the latest smoking figures from this tobacco-funded non-profit?
Claim: 49% of men and 34.1% of women in South Africa smoke tobacco. Is this true? Africa Check investigates.
War declared on the ‘superbugs’
Several initiatives are under way to stop the abuse of antibiotics.
The facts beat the quacks: Our #COVID19SA vs. our #HIV response
Reporting on Covid-19 and HIV in South Africa is like day and night, Mia Malan, who has reported on both epidemics, writes.
Could six injections a year protect you from HIV infection?
A new injectable drug could change the face of HIV prevention and the revolution might start right here in South Africa.
Teachers may be losing the battle of the bulge
A new study argues a teacher's health habits could influence pupils'choices.
Fed-up NHI doctors say they are nothing more than glorified nurses
GPs working in the National Health Insurance’s biggest pilot site say they won't stay because of drug stock-outs, staff shortages and long queues
How prejudice strips people with disabilities of their sexual and reproductive rights
Many people with physical disabilities find it hard to access sexual and reproductive health services — and it’s often the prejudice of those without disabilities that stands in their way.