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Cancer and heart disease: Can alcohol help you or hurt you?
Drinking four glasses of wine a day can increase your chances of getting breast cancer by about 50%.
Four factors blocking medicines made in Africa
Setting up a continent-wide medicines regulator in Africa could be key to getting the continent’s people the treatments and COVID vaccines they need. Here’s why more countries need to put their weight behind it.
Death knell for cancer research
The state has pulled its funding of studies on the disease, retarding progress on a cure.
Why it could cost less than R120 per year to save a life
Maternal deaths in developing regions would fall by 73% if all women had access to contraception and maternal healthcare, shows new research.
Headache a day helps HPCSA keep media at bay
The council issued an incorrect media statement on its Tim Noakes hearing on Friday. But its media blunders are not new.
COVID-19 has increased hunger in SA. So what works best to improve access to...
South Africa’s expansion of social grants during lockdown was a good move — new evidence shows such cash transfers are effective in reducing food insecurity. But the country may need more of these and may also have to increase their amounts.
Pills and phone calls: How COVID restrictions forced us to conduct abortions telephonically
COVID-19 forced many people’s jobs online – even for doctors who provide abortions. Read what Marie Stopes learned when they helped nearly 50 patients terminate pregnancies over the phone.
Mediation could ease SA’s medico-legal woes but it’s no quick fix
South Africa is now home to more than 90 trained medical mediators, but there’s not much work to go around - yet.
Protests, progress and performance: Here’s what it takes to clean up a provincial health...
In 2018, protests over alleged corruption in the North West health department literally set the province on fire. Cabinet eventually put six of the province's departments under administration. Here's an inside look from the woman tasked with cleaning house at the provincial health department.
Will South Africa reach its 90-90-90 HIV targets?
The country has made progress with its plans to prevent, treat and monitor HIV but still has a long way to go.
United Nations’ first high-level meeting on TB could usher in a new world order
The global body heeds calls by SA health minister Aaron Motsoaledi for high-level meeting on age-old killer.
Find inner joy: Why this condom can take your sexual pleasure to new heights
The health department aims to distribute 40-million inner condoms per year to government health facilities. But orders from clinics and hospitals are so low that only 40% of this goal was achieved over the past four years. Here’s why.
Bhekisisa journalism fellowships
Bhekisisa's first fellowship is coming to end and fellow, Sydney Masinga, speaks about his experience. If you're an interested journalist apply now.
Rape, murder and indifference
The government must stop paying mere lip service to rooting out gender-based violence.
#AIDS2016 signals the beginning of research into a new generation of HIV vaccines
The time for an HIV vaccine is now
SA may hold key to curing world’s rising drug-resistant TB epidemic
New drug combinations tested in the country may be a lifeline to those with TB most unlikely to survive it.