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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.
My controversial 100kg revolution
Santie Pretorius details her weight loss journey, which included surgery, in a new book.
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.
Spreading false hope and endangering people’s lives: Why do so many believe in quacks?
Faith healers, psychics, celebrities and others sell their holy water, prayers, bracelets, vitamins and other gimmicks to vulnerable people.
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.
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.
Bugs, borers & heatwaves: Life and mental health in a hotter Joburg
Joburg may have avoided a total “treepocolypse”, but the city is continuing to battle the invasive beetle killing off its trees. In the war against the shot hole borer, there may be more at stake than just the city’s iconic tree-lined avenues.
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.
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 HIV response, African women and girls are rarely at the fore and the international community often treats the phrase “African” as if it referred to some homogenous community.
Medical conscientious objectors who scupper abortions deny women their rights
Conscientious objectors who refuse to perform abortions or related services for moral reasons may have become a law unto themselves.
Black experts in the health sector: Where are they?
It's not right that only black voices in health stories are those patients. Black medical researchers must also be heard in the media space.
This kills more South Africans than any other disease. There’s a new way to...
One in four people carry this potentially deadly bug? Now a new shorter treatment can prevent it from making you sick.
Is your phone tainted by the misery of the 35 000 children in Congo’s...
Our computers and phones keep us connected but a key ingredient in them keeps children as young as six locked in a vicious cycle for about R26 a day.
HIV researchers, citizens must be part of decisions
If the progress we see today is anything to go by, it means we are closer than ever to having an HIV vaccine.
#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.
Memoirs of an activist: ‘The real heroes of the HIV struggle are still unknown’
In a new book, Mark Heywood reflects on love, justice and haunting lessons from the past.