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Despite a strong HIV programme response

#AIDS2016: HIV is a social issue and requires a new tack to end the...

Opinion Nina Baltes and Michael Thiede -
The government needs to spend much more on nonmedical interventions, and that comes down to changing the way people interact.
Nearly 80% of first-line ARVs used in the developing world are produced in India

Cheap drugs a bitter pill for the West

Opinion Mara Kardas-Nelson -
A global squabble over property rights could see the price of medicine soar in poor countries.
Lesotho is battling to find ways of paying the specially trained HIV and TB counsellors who help people with the virus to adhere to the antiretroviral treatment.

Funding crisis looms large

Opinion Indira Govender -
HIV counsellors play a vital role in Lesotho's health system, but the money is running out.
South Africa can reap substantial gains by learning from and collaborating with Brazil

SA should use Brics membership to strengthen research

Opinion John Ouma Mugabe -
South Africa has a lot to learn about efficient and effective ways to approach health research and policy, suggests John Ouma-Mugabe.
Non-lung TB

World: Stop turning your back on TB

Opinion Dereck Tait -
The disease kills more than a million people a year but the world's response to it is totally inadequate.
Bhekisisa bagged five awards at the Discovery Health Journalism Awards on Wednesday night. From left: Amy Green, Mia Malan and Ina Skosana

Bhekisisa: Help us choose a winner

Opinion Staff Reporter -
One of our reader letters will win a one-year digital subscription to the Mail & Guardian. Help us decide who deserves it.
Most medical aids won't cover a new

Staunching SA’s pregnancy wound

Opinion Peter Barron and Yogan Pillay -
Unless the state's plan to curb maternal deaths is wholly implemented, it won't make a dent.
South Africa is making progress in treating drug-resistant TB.

SA makes great strides in treating ‘strong’ TB

Opinion Jennifer Hughes -
The country has one of the highest tuberculosis burdens. But it is rapidly gaining access to new diagnostic tools and medicine for drug-resistant TB.
Helen Keller epitomised triumph over adversity

The right to life – and death

Opinion Andrew Verrijdt -
However much we abhor the idea, the choice is personal and should be respected.
An open letter to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe

We should be allies, not enemies, Gwede Mantashe

Opinion Mark Heywood -
An open letter to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
Bhekisisa's first fellowship is coming to end and fellow

Bhekisisa journalism fellowships

Opinion Staff Reporter -
Bhekisisa's first fellowship is coming to end and fellow, Sydney Masinga, speaks about his experience. If you're an interested journalist apply now.
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.
Almost half of all Kenyan women aged 15 to 49 years have a child under the age of five. For most of these women

How women who work are held back by a lack of quality daycare in...

Opinion Stella Muthuri -
The increasingly disjointed nature of life in urban slums means there’s no network of family support for mothers who want to work.
Diseases in Dadaab refugee camp can spread quickly

Camp closure is next health crisis

Opinion Melat Haille -
Sending Dadaab's refugees back to Somalia will become the next health emergency.
Better prevention strategies are helping to stem the tide of HIV.

The stigma of HIV still kills

Opinion Mia Malan -
December 1 is #WorldAisDay: HIV was discovered more than 30 years ago. Why do we still stigmatise HIV-infected people?
As multiple drug suppliers are failing to keep up with demand

Millions are denied morphine that will free them from pain

Opinion Fatia Kiyange -
Markets, attitudes and the war on drugs are the barriers that prevent patients having access to opioid-based pain medication.
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