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#MiningIndaba: Why the real mining investors won’t be in Cape Town this week
The most important people in mining will not be among the movers and shakers at the high-profile event this week.
My controversial 100kg revolution
Santie Pretorius details her weight loss journey, which included surgery, in a new book.
Zimbabwe mixes medicine and tradition for safer circumcision
Zimbabwe has successfully won the support of chiefs and their people by combining a respect for tradition with safe, modern procedures.
Bundle of jitters: How these community health workers are helping moms cope with the...
Pregnancy can be a time of joy - and sadness. Many pregnant women and mothers of infants in lower-income communities acknowledge feeling depressed during this time. Here’s how community health workers helped alleviate this.
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.
Ticket to ride: How the coronavirus outbreak could change air travel
When a pandemic strikes, scientists are left scrambling to find new vaccines to curb it. The latest coronavirus outbreak may become a testing ground for how to roll out new jabs quickly at the most unlikely of places.
Man who created the first GMO babies is missing but his discovery could haunt...
Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have engineered the world’s first genetically-modified babies. Did he unleash one of science’s worst fears?
Could we mass-produce HIV immunity?
One tiny protein may hold the secret to ending the HIV pandemic.
Sex, shrugs and policy holes: Why partially decriminalising sex work isn’t enough
After almost two decades, the South African Law Reform Commission chose fiction over facts.
#AIDS2016: New science may put the power to prevent HIV in women’s hands
Being able to take a pill discreetly, as women have done with contraceptives since the 1950s, is an HIV prevention revolution.
Forced sterilisations rob African women of more than just motherhood
The ability to bear children continues to decide many women's social standing and inheritance.
A false sense of safety? Why ending the COVID pandemic doesn’t stop with vaccines
The world was able to develop COVID-19 vaccines in just over a year. But much more needs to be done before we can end the pandemic.
South Africa must stand firm with India – the pharmacy of the developing world
As Indian PM Narendra Modi visits South Africa, we must push to ensure continued access to affordable medicines.
Free healthcare is a human right
Healthcare that is accessible to all is the foundation on which an equitable and efficient system must be built.
Is ‘all-in-one healthcare’ a dream?
Is getting all you need from one health team far fetched? Actually not. It's one field where the public health system beats the private one.
Don’t believe the hype: Why increases to the health budget on paper don’t translate...
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.