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Suicide and the violence of our words
What if we thought of suicide as the outcome of a terminal illness instead of the outcome of an action?
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.
How Zambia is beating malaria
A decade ago, most countries used only localised strategies. But Zambia decided to make bed nets, insecticides, and drugs available nationwide.
‘We can’t accept the new HIV, TB plan’ – Treatment Action Campaign
The country's strongest HIV lobby group won't back South Africa's HIV and TB plan just yet. Here are their demands.
If HIV denialists don’t deserve a platform, why should Helen Zille?
Journalism does not begin or end with free speech, we have an ethical obligation not to give platform for abhorrent views in the name of free speech.
SA may hold key to curing world’s rising drug-resistant TB epidemic
New drug combinations tested in the country may be a lifeline to those with TB most unlikely to survive it.
We can achieve a TB-free South Africa, but it’s time to pick up the...
Today, SA is seeing fewer new TB cases and deaths than ever before.
Women’s bodies are the battleground for civil liberties
Female activists face persecution largely because their existence is an affront to the patriarchal nature of societies.
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.
Service delivery starts with data. See who’s been missing from the spreadsheets
Without accurate data, maginalised groups risk being left behind - again.
Looking to invest in health? Here’s how to make the most of it
Every dollar spent on vaccines brings a 16-fold return on investment — and up to $44 for every dollar if broader benefits are taken into account.
#MiningIndaba: Why the real mining investors won’t be in Cape Town this week
The most important people in mining will not be among the movers and shakers at the high-profile event this week.
United Nations’ first high-level meeting on TB could usher in a new world order
The global body heeds calls by SA health minister Aaron Motsoaledi for high-level meeting on age-old killer.
It’s time to stop treating sexual violence as just coincidental to HIV infections
A national policy on sexual assault has been in draft form for years. Now, the country now has the chance to put survivors of sexual violence first.
Why treasury won’t support a fall in the tampon tax
Pontsho Pilane recently presented a proposal to Parliament to introduce free pads for poor people who menstruate. Here’s what she learned.
Forced sterilisations rob African women of more than just motherhood
The ability to bear children continues to decide many women's social standing and inheritance.