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The promise and peril of do-it-yourself HIV testing
One in two people living with HIV still aren’t on treatment, could DIY testing be the solution?
These countries medically prescribe heroin, should SA follow suit?
It’s time that evidence, not stigma, drive SA’s drug policies.
Mediation could ease SA’s medico-legal woes but it’s no quick fix
South Africa is now home to more than 90 trained medical mediators, but there’s not much work to go around - yet.
Health or human rights? False dichotomy could fuel a resurgence in forced HIV testing
More than three decades ago, HIV activists fought against mandatory testing. Now an old battle is finding new life.
‘Manana will at best get a suspended sentence or a fine’
Fikile Mbabalula, Bathabile Dlamini, Mduduzi Manana. They all served in same cabinet - where
two ends of a
vicious circle meet.
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.
Why does HIV kill more men than women?
In 2016, 60% of women of 15 years or older living with HIV were on treatment. Less than half their male peers could say the same.
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.
South African Aids council stands by national sex worker plan
Human rights and access to healthcare remain paramount in the country's response.
It’s time to end SA’s war on drugs
Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more, argue experts.
I’m a nurse and this is why SA should decriminalise sex work
Why would humanitarian workers support the call to decriminalize sex work? Sometimes bombs, floods aren't the only threats to our patients.
A cautionary tale to young doctors looking to take on medicine’s culture of abuse
In 2016, Yumna Moosa took to social media to rally young doctors against medicine's culture of bullying. Now, she's not sure she'd do it again.
If HIV denialists have not been pardoned, why should the DA excuse Helen Zille?
Aids has taught South Africans why denialism can't be tolerated – whether it comes from Thabo Mbeki or Helen Zille.
SA lawyers: Motsoaledi, we’re not the reason gynaes won’t deliver babies
Werksmans Attorneys' Neil Kirby hits back at claims that unscrupulous lawyers are driving doctors out of business.
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.