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Educated girls have children later in life and are less likely to die during childbirth.

Education is the foundation for young girls’ future

Opinion Graça Machel and Erna Solberg -
Along with better access to health services and reducing child marriage, education can save many lives.
A drug could save the lives of premature babies

Yay for SA’s child health policies, nay for outcomes

Opinion Gugulethu Ndebele -
This week holds the opportunity for us to show that we are serious about having a world where no child is born to die.

Why medical aids are so expensive

Opinion Barry Childs -
Greater collaboration and sharing of information between stakeholders will lead to reductions in costs.
Where will newly qualified doctors go if provinces are being told to scale back staff under budget pressures?

Exhausted doctors endanger health

Opinion Koot Kotze -
Medical interns are leading the battle to reduce the dangerously overlong working hours that compromise the safety of patients.
Outspoken advocate: In 2007 Galip Asvat

Men are also ‘corrective rape’ victims

Opinion Angelo Louw -
Many men, thanks to social stigmas, are ashamed to report sexual hate crimes – but they are almost as common as they are against lesbians.
French scientists have singled out a mechanism that spontaneously 'cured' two people of HIV

Can we end Aids in Africa?

Opinion Olive Shisana -
While much has been done to end Aids in Africa, more work by governments is necessary to move forward, particularly in SA.
Depression and anxiety are common amongst TB patients and a UCT study says counselling is needed to keep sufferers on treatment.

Collective will can curb TB epidemic

Opinion Nulda Beyers -
Widespread tuberculosis awareness campaigns can rein in its increasing transmission rates.
Draft national health department guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse's right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person's right to choose.

Preventative care will lower costs

Opinion Neil Nair and Bhekisisa Team -
Better-quality primary healthcare would result in lower medical aid premiums.
All sectors in society need to act to stop gender based violence say Sonke Gender Justice Network as they remember Reeva Steenkamp and Anene Booysen.

This Valentine’s Day don’t ignore the screams next door

Opinion Czerina Patel and Dean Peacock -
All sectors in society need to act to stop gender based violence say Sonke Gender Justice as they remember Reeva Steenkamp and Anene Booysen.
“We did not identify any source of funding. We have just identified several methods of financing the NHI

NHI: Let’s talk about this revolution

Opinion Chris Archer -
Minister, please sit down with the private health sector before the NHI has us paying more but getting less, writes Dr Chris Archer.
Would you betray your partner in crime if it meant you could avoid jail? Here's how this mentality can push up the price of medicines.

Physician, don’t fool yourself – Motsoaledi replies to NHI criticism

Opinion Aaron Motsoaledi -
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi describes Dr Chris Archer's criticism of the national health insurance as ignorant at best.
The country's largest HIV lobby group

Rape, murder and indifference

Opinion Dean Peacock, Czerina Patel and Mario Greyling -
The government must stop paying mere lip service to rooting out gender-based violence.
A woman and her children in a village in Niger. A child born in 1960 had an 18% chance of dying before his or her fifth birthday. Today

100-million young lives saved by aid

Opinion Bhekisisa Team -
Aid may often be criticised, but it works, says the Gates Foundation.
Mammography is still the gold standard of breast screening.

Mammograms still the gold standard of breast screening

Opinion Justus Apffelstaedt -
Breast cancer expert, Justus Apffelstaedt, explains the complexities around the issue of screening for this disease.
Family planning is not a luxury to everyone. Melinda Gates talks about why she has dedicated so much of her time to helping women plan their families.

Melinda Gates on what’s best for children

Opinion Melinda Gates -
Family planning is not a luxury to everyone. Melinda Gates talks about why she has dedicated so much of her time to helping women plan their families.
A voucher-based initiative to get women to nurse their babies is causing a stir

Breast may be best, but bribing mothers to nurse is not

Opinion Joanna Moorhead -
There are many advantages to breastfeeding but should mothers be bribed to do it?
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