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Catholic priest: Why it’s wrong to open our churches
Is it responsible to allow religious gatherings during level 3 lockdown? This church leader says no — there are safer ways to provide people with spiritual support during the COVID-19 epidemic.
#AIDS2016 signals the beginning of research into a new generation of HIV vaccines
The time for an HIV vaccine is now
Past, present and future: What should be shaping Africa’s COVID-19 response
The World Health Organisation estimates that Africa will need up to 25-million respirators monthly. We must ensure that essential medical supplies such as these reach all of our communities. Now, is the time for the continent to leverage existing HIV services to boost COVID-19 testing, isolation, contact tracing and treatment.
Lead in the blood: The poisoning of a generation
By 1927, Anglo American had obtained a controlling interest in a decades’ old lead mine north of Lusaka. Today, the mine may be closed, but its legacy lives on in the tiny bodies of the children that grow up in its shadow and who carry traces of its ore in their blood. Their poisoning is just the latest in a cycle that will leave lasting intellectual and physical burdens on them and their children for generations to come.
Singapore slings health clues SA’s way
Its health system is comparable to the best in the world, achieved at a fraction of the cost of others.
Curing a sick system: Doctors and nurses must speak out for patients and themselves
Medicine shouldn’t be the only thing on the books at our medical schools. Here are some tips for healthcare workers to handle abuse.
What will it take to end Aids by 2030?
Scientific advances mean nothing if people are too ashamed and feel too judged to seek them out.
Why linking pads to sex may speak volumes about how we stigmatise menstruation
Anna Dahlqvist reflects on a short history of a messy 'problem', or how the world taught you to fear your period.
Government tackles TB in prisons
Initiatives in the past four years have greatly increased inmates’ access to healthcare.
Radical transformation begins with fixing how we fund healthcare in remote areas
Once slices of the healthcare funding pie are dished out to provinces, there is little control over how this money is spent to benefit the rural poor.
Civil society’s #MeToo moment: ‘We are complicit in creating environments that allow this’
Civil society is supposed to be a watchdog. It’s supposed to fight for what’s right – but what happens when those tasked with advocating for the most vulnerable become the perpetrators of sexual harassment?
This is why some rapists will never face justice
For survivors, any hope of justice depends on the presence of doctors and forensic nurses. The catch? These are few and far between.
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.
Malawi’s sick prisons: Inmates go hungry as budgets dwindle and food prices soar
As a food crisis unfolds in the country, prisons lack money to purchase even simple food stuffs such as maize flour and beans.
‘I thought drug users just made bad choices. Then this happened’
Until two years ago, it was Sibonelo Gumede’s job to help developers get rid of people who used drugs in neighbourhoods. Then his life changed.
#AIDS2016: HIV is a social issue and requires a new tack to end the...
The government needs to spend much more on nonmedical interventions, and that comes down to changing the way people interact.