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More women than men get tested. According to Sanac this may be because women go for a test when they fall pregnant.

World Aids Day: Less than half of infected people know

Ina Skosana -
An estimated 6.8 million people in South Africa are HIV positive.

HIV fight requires wisdom

Marcus Low -
Dr Llewellyn Volmink grew up in the township of Nkqubela in Robertson and is now a medical doctor working in the local hospital.

The rural doctor who came home to serve his people in...

Mia Malan -
If these targets are reached

Aids could be over by 2030 – or it could get...

Mia Malan -
Minimal: Many elements in clinical care are routine and should be standardised.

Simple logic saves patients’ lives

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People who use creams to lighten their skin risk causing lasting damage to their bodies and nervous systems.

When lightening strikes it brings pale ailments

Ina Skosana -
Feeling the heat: Passengers are screened with thermal imaging cameras for illness at Bangkok’s ?Suvarnabhumi Airport in a bid to avert the spread of Ebola.

Ebola flight risk fears ungrounded

Ina Skosana and -
Many people with migraine headaches are first misdiagnosed with

Could your sinusitis actually be a migraine?

Amy Green -
Changes in dietary patterns

Bloem, Pretoria the fattest in SA, according to study

Mia Malan -
Caution needed: Dr Carol Benn says if a woman takes hormone replacement therapy for more than five years she risks 'fertilising' cancerous tissue in the breast.

The flush of hormonal success

Amy Green -
Pulmonary embolism is the most preventable cause of hospital deaths in the world.

Blood clots can be fatal – look out for the warning...

Mia Malan -
Bleak outlook: Life on the streets is grim

The streets where homelessness, abuse and mental illness meet

Ina Skosana -
Ginkgo Biloba leaves.

Health-fad herb may reduce ARV efficacy, report warns

Phyllis Mbanje -
Bloody business: Aborted foetuses at an illegal abortion clinic in Jo'burg.

Abortion turns into a nightmare

Ina Skosana -
Pupils with disabilities face big struggles with access to transport to and from schools

Disabled children face uphill education battle

Mia Malan -
Fight the rot: With both her feet now amputated

When hospitals don’t make the cut

Paul McNally -
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