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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.
Our leaders must keep their word
Though progress has been made, Africa must continue the fight against Aids, TB and malaria.
Is universal access to healthcare possible?
The Elders say everybody is entitled to decent, affordable medical attention.
Abortion: Government to get tougher on doctors with moral objections
Draft guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse's right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person's right to choose.
#AIDS2016: Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi admits that ‘key leaders were in denial’
South African health minister calls AIDS denialism an 'unlucky' moment for a country that has since become a leader in HIV treatment, prevention.
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.
Money can’t be the only motive for developing life-saving medicines
Will the world act now to be ready for the next big outbreak?
TB: This pee test could save your life
What if diagnosing South Africa’s deadliest disease was as simple as taking a drug store pregnancy test? That day might be closer than you think.
Bhekisisa: Help us choose a winner
One of our reader letters will win a one-year digital subscription to the Mail & Guardian. Help us decide who deserves it.
It pays to invest in poor girls and women – the returns are greater
Rwanda has shown that improved nutrition lifts individuals, families, communities and economies.
Four lessons from 40 years of HIV: Why COVID doesn’t end with equitable vaccine...
Inequity in COVID vaccine access echoes mistakes from the HIV response. In the forty years since Aids was first identified, there have also been several lessons on how to contain a pandemic. Starting with equity and supporting health systems.
Unconscionable: Health workers’ right to refuse abortions vs women’s right to choose
When religion trumps science in medicine, women's bodies and Constitutional rights may be caught in the crossfire.
Does SA’s biggest killer show up in your party’s manifesto?
A curable and preventable disease is South Africa’s biggest killer. Is your political party going to do something about it — and does it show up in their election manifesto?
SA must close the immunisation gap that parallels class
Vaccines take centre stage in times of crisis but outside of public health emergencies they do not always get the attention they deserve.
My controversial 100kg revolution
Santie Pretorius details her weight loss journey, which included surgery, in a new book.
‘I thought I’d breastfeed my baby for a year. That dream was short-lived’
We tell moms to exclusively breastfeed. But we don’t tell them about all the things that get in the way of that, including depression.