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Medical male circumcision offers a gateway to HIV testing and medical check-ups
Circumcision can prevent thousands of HIV infections by 2030 at a relatively low cost, but the uptake has been slower than expected.
Sex, soccer and social media
A Nigerian and a Kenyan use social media and the football pitch to discuss contraceptives and stop pregnancy.
Is one of Africa’s most important lakes really shrinking?
Our two-year study shows the lake has been stable since the 1990s. Costly ‘solutions’ shift focus from the complex causes of the region’s deadly crisis.
The Sisonke trial rewrote history. Eight lessons for the nationwide vaccine roll-out
Usually, the gap between designing a study and scaling it up to reach people on the ground takes years. Sisonke did it in a matter of 17 days – and rewrote history.
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.
Is universal access to healthcare possible?
The Elders say everybody is entitled to decent, affordable medical attention.
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A safe retreat from the war on drugs
The threat of punishment and discrimination doesn’t drive people to quit or avoid drugs, but rather to hide their use, including from their doctors. There is a better way, and jurisdictions like the US state of Oregon may have found it.
Scars of conflict: ‘We should not forget Africa’s women’
Community health workers are bringing healthcare to the homes of HIV-infected pregnant women in rural Cameroon. It has saved many babies.
#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.
#AIDS2016: Youth will lead the way to an Aids-free generation – Ramaphosa
Education and opportunity are key to stemming the tide of HIV in South Africa's young women.
Global health still mimics colonial ways: here’s how to break the pattern
Why it's time we look within for expertise on how to fix Global South healthcare issues.
Preventative care will lower costs
Better-quality primary healthcare would result in lower medical aid premiums.
Karoo dust, diet & diabetes: Why ‘lifestyle disease’ is an unfair label
Diabetes is different from other non-communicable diseases, this author says. It can’t be spread in a literal sense — instead, it is often forced upon people by factors beyond their control. What happens when you have no say on your genetics or all you can afford is processed food?
Camp closure is next health crisis
Sending Dadaab's refugees back to Somalia will become the next health emergency.
#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.
Bending the curve: What a decade-long roll-out of the anti-HIV pill can teach the...
What can the roll-out of a two-monthly HIV prevention injection learn from how the daily anti-HIV pill was introduced? Create demand, make the jab easy to get hold of and ensure it’s not stigmatised, write Wawira Nyagah and Mitchell Warren.