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The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bhekisisa is one of only a few media outlets in the Global South specialising in solutions-based narrative features and analysis. We not only uncover problems but also critically evaluate the solutions meant to fix them. It’s an approach we also take with our opinion pieces.

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People queue in makeshift camps following past threats of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Today

Are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?

Opinion Sasha Stevenson -
Recent national and Gauteng memos demanding all foreign patients pay in full for services likely fell foul of the law.
Could MDMA one day come of the rave scene and into mainstream psychology? Emerging research may be a step in that direction.

Could this drug one day come out of the club and onto your therapist’s...

Opinion Molly Carlyle -
Ecstasy users are more empathetic than those who take other drugs – even when not on it.
You can't treat what you can't count: No one knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa.

Southern Africa’s missing drug users: We can’t treat what we don’t count

Opinion Catherine Sozi -
No one really knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa and that's a bigger problem than you think.
Diary of a young

‘HIV is my unwanted pregnancy’

Opinion Bhuti Poz -
If you are a man who has sex with men, the HIV prevention pill just keeps getting better. Find out how.
Money

Don’t believe the hype: Why increases to the health budget on paper don’t translate...

Opinion Daniel McLaren -
Legal claims against the department now amount to more than half of some provincial health budgets. Less money now will only mean more claims later.
An 8% above-inflation hike could mean South Africans would smoke 22-million fewer cigarette packs over a four-year period.

#Budget2019: How this could have netted the country 17.1-billion — & saved lives

Opinion Kirsten van der Zee and Savera Kalideen -
Find out why Mboweni's R1.14 hike won't be enough to cut smoking, save lives or bring in much-needed cash.
Doctors and nurses were held at gunpoint to stop giving patients treatment.

What to do about South Africa’s unemployed doctors

Opinion Russell Rensburg -
It’s official. Austerity budgets may be here to stay. Here’s how South Africa should be working with what it’s got to provide healthcare.
The health department has proposed accrediting public hospitals to provide c-sections as a way of improving the safety of the procedures across the country.

This is putting SA’s women in the grave, so what’s the health department doing...

Opinion Yogan Pillay -
Pregnancy in South Africa is getting safer, but still not safe enough. Here’s what the health department says they’re doing about it.
Faux facts are travelling at lightning speed across the internet and they're bad for your health.

The rise of anti-vaxxer bots: Fake news is going viral — it’s bad for...

Opinion Junaid Nabi -
How do you outrun a lie when science shows misinformation spreads faster than fact?
It’s 2019 and some clinics and hospitals in this country are still battling for basic hygiene.

Only half of clinics and hospitals in this country meet basic hygiene standards

Opinion Mercy Masoo -
What if your doctor couldn’t even wash her hands before examining you?
The struggle to survive bringing a new life into the world is still so real for South African women.

‘HIV testing was compulsory. If you didn’t test, they wouldn’t treat you’

Opinion Shenilla Mohamed -
The struggle to survive pregnancy and death in a land of plenty and poverty hasn’t changed much in the past five years — there are lives to prove it.
As good as a trainer... well

How to get the most out of your gym membership

Opinion Neil Gibson -
Finally, go where you've always feared to tread at the gym with these four tips.
CRISPR technology is a relatively new and powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and modify gene function.

Man who created the first GMO babies is missing but his discovery could haunt...

Opinion Joyce Harper -
Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have engineered the world’s first genetically-modified babies. Did he unleash one of science’s worst fears?
Give a young woman as little as R100 a month and what does it buy her? School supplies

Could R100 a month be enough to keep South Africa’s young women HIV free?

Opinion Catherine Sozi -
In a world hemmed in by patriarchy and poverty, cash transfers could be the missing link in SA’s HIV prevention programmes.
Find out what solutions have been put forward to make healthcare more efficient.

Are foreigners stealing your jobs and healthcare? Find out

Opinion Savo Heleta, Sharon Ekambaram and Sibongile Tshabalala -
A 'foreign threat’ could be a convenient boogeyman in an election season where politicians will face questions about their failures. Or not?
“Whenever I heard about comics I thought of jokes. I never knew I could develop my own comics and use them to talk about important issues”

Antibiotic resistance: Three ways to stop the rise of the superbugs

Opinion Tim Jinks -
We are facing possibly the greatest health threat of our time: drug-resistant infections. But here's why there's hope the world can change course.
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