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‘Add human rights defender to your resume’: How Tlaleng Mofokeng uses medicine to treat...
When doctors treat women as people, rather than a collection of organs and ailments, the practice of medicine can be a powerful tool to restore people’s dignity.
The oldest trick in Big Tobacco’s playbook nearly derailed SA’s TB conference. Here’s why
The Foundation for Professional Development, one of South Africa’s oldest nonprofits and the main sponsor of the TB conference in Durban, accepted a R2-million research grant from an organisation that’s widely regarded as a front group for Philip Morris International.
‘Academic boys’ to ‘sex jaros’: What it means to be a Black boy in...
Toxic masculinities help drive everything from HIV infection rates to gender-based violence. But before we ask, what does it mean to be a ‘man’ in South Africa, should we wonder what it’s like to be a boy?
Your A to Z guide on HIV: The top 10 things to know from...
The HIV pandemic isn’t going anywhere until a cure is found. In the meantime, these expert HIV clinicians say South Africa should protect its victories.
Rape, time & place: How to understand SA’s geography of violence
Simply identifying hotspots doesn’t explain why some places report more gender-based violence than others. This limits our understanding of the problem, and our ability to find a solution.
Unconscionable: Health workers’ right to refuse abortions vs women’s right to choose
When religion trumps science in medicine, women's bodies and Constitutional rights may be caught in the crossfire.
More than just a footnote: ‘African authors are under-represented as first authors — positions...
The foreign gaze: Academics from the Global North are more likely to be cited as first authors on papers — and sit on the editorial boards that accept them.
When climate change & health collide: Will SA’s policy have the teeth — or...
Previously, the health department dedicated about R180 000 per year to respond to what is arguably the greatest threat humankind has ever faced.
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.
The facts beat the quacks: Our #COVID19SA vs. our #HIV response
Reporting on Covid-19 and HIV in South Africa is like day and night, Mia Malan, who has reported on both epidemics, writes.
‘There’s nothing un-African about being gay’: A mother’s plea for gay children’s right to...
In this moving account, an HIV activist describes her relationship with her gay son and her fears over Uganda’s homophobic bill that criminalises his sexuality.
‘HIV testing was compulsory. If you didn’t test, they wouldn’t treat you’
The struggle to survive pregnancy and death in a land of plenty and poverty hasn’t changed much in the past five years — there are lives to prove it.
Poisoned production: The lead industry is booming – it’s just moved to poorer countries
The lead industry is funding researchers and United Nations bodies to paint its toxic products in a favourable light, says this expert, despite the evidence that lead exposure harms children’s development.
Codeine abuse is a habit, but how should South Africa deal with it?
All codeine products might soon require a prescription, taking them out of the reach of people needing only a mild pain killer.
Could nurses track domestic violence from stomach pains and headaches?
The government had a plan to build domestic violence care into clinic services more than two decades ago – nothing ever came of it. Researcher Lisa Vetten argues it’s not too late to bring the long forgotten project back to life.
#AIDS2016: Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi admits that ‘key leaders were in denial’
South African health minister calls AIDS denialism an 'unlucky' moment for a country that has since become a leader in HIV treatment, prevention.