A cautionary tale to young doctors looking to take on medicine’s culture of abuse
In 2016, Yumna Moosa took to social media to rally young doctors against medicine's culture of bullying. Now, she's not sure she'd do it again.
The business of love: Why condom factories and job creation could go hand-in-hand
Every year, the continent falls 3-billion condoms short of what it needs. Could investing in condom factories be the answer —...
Body politics: The invisible women of global HIV response
In sub-Saharan Africa, four out of five new infections among adolescents are among girls. But when it comes to the global...
SA lawyers: Motsoaledi, we’re not the reason gynaes won’t deliver babies
Werksmans Attorneys' Neil Kirby hits back at claims that unscrupulous lawyers are driving doctors out of business.
It’s time to stop treating sexual violence as just coincidental to HIV infections
A national policy on sexual assault has been in draft form for years. Now, the country now has the chance to put survivors of sexual violence first.
Is universal access to healthcare possible?
The Elders say everybody is entitled to decent, affordable medical attention.
A life-saving shift: New reductions in doctors’ hours are still far off the mark
Research shows that any shift longer than 16 hours puts doctors and patients at risk.
Court case could force gold industry to pay out miners’ daughters and wives
A high court has ruled that compensation to women who have to take care of sick miners could ease the gendered harms imposed by the industry.
#AIDS2016: As donor funding falls, SA must come up with a plan to stretch...
It will cost the country R30-billion a year to treat and prevent HIV by 2020, so the state has to lower costs and be clever with its health spending.
Only half of clinics and hospitals in this country meet basic hygiene standards
What if your doctor couldn’t even wash her hands before examining you?
This country has upheld its ban on gay sex. Here’s why it could be...
“The failure to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations will undermine Kenya’s aim of reaching universal health coverage,” UNAids says.
Why over-treating malaria in Africa is a problem, and how it can be stopped
Malaria medication is being accidentally wasted on other conditions.
Could your favourite birth control put you at risk of HIV?
A Cape Town study could finally provide the answer to whether there is a link between the shot and HIV infection risk.
Have wheels, will travel: The all-male crews who are taking on sexual violence one...
Floods, fires and war — for decades, first responders have been using this mental health hack to help people after disasters...
Are foreigners stealing your jobs and healthcare? Find out.
A 'foreign threat’ could be a convenient boogeyman in an election season where politicians will face questions about their failures. Or not?
Will the National Health Insurance Bill go far enough to prevent corruption?
The National Health Insurance Bill was released on 8 August but a look at how well our mothers – and our...