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South Africans consume between 7.8 and 9.5g of salt per day, exceeding the World Health Organisation’s one teaspoon recommendation per day.

Student demographics are shifting, but academic staff remain predominantly white

Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.

Poor training of nurses may have led to severe reactions to a new contraceptive device.

The HIV and TB epidemics are being exacerbated by a chronic shortage of health workers in prisons.

Health experts are at loggerheads over research that raises questions about the possible link between the contraceptive injection and HIV.

State officials have visited Dihlabeng and the Free State health MEC says he will follow suit.

Gender activists have welcomed talks between two departments about ways to reduce teenage pregnancies, but no decision has yet been taken.

Free State Health MEC Benny Malakoane has accused the M&G of sensationalist reporting, but warned that his department will run out of money this year.

A Medecins Sans Frontieres project in Cape Town finds that sick people prefer being treated at facilities closer to home rather than in hospitals.

Women's advocacy groups are lodging a formal complaint against the "coerced" sterilisation of HIV-infected women, saying it defies state policy.

Researchers recognise the need to change HIV prevention technologies to suit different lifestyles.

The normalisation of gender discrimination is blamed as the crucial factor that makes women and girls vulnerable to human traffickers.

The petition in question was initiated by the People's Health Movement, not the South African Medical Association or the Rural Doctors Association.

Without good lighting, plants and privacy, the open-plan office can become a threat to the wellbeing of the people working there.

Citing a conflict of interests and an inability to be impartial, "Dr Death" wants the committee conducting the inquiry into his conduct to step down.