Over 5 000 Palestinians have died since October 7, when an attack by the armed group Hamas killed around 1 400 Israelis, and led to heavy retaliation. A 35-year-old civilian in Gaza details life under siege.
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More than a million public healthcare users in South Africa had started to use the HIV prevention pill by the end of May, with over half doing so in the past two years, health department data shows. But what must we do to make the pill — and a two-monthly HIV prevention injection — easier to get?
Laura Grant is a data journalist with 20 years of experience in the South African media as a journalist, copy editor and designer. She combines infographics, interactive maps and a variety of other visual elements with journalistic storytelling to make data accessible and interesting at Media Hack Collective.
- Laura Granthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/laura-grant/March 24, 2023
- Laura Granthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/laura-grant/April 19, 2022
- Laura Granthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/laura-grant/March 10, 2022
- Laura Granthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/laura-grant/June 9, 2021
Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/February 26, 2024
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/February 6, 2024
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/January 30, 2024
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/December 11, 2023
People with HIV have a big chance of battling with mental health problems. At the moment though, only doctors can prescribe psychiatric medicines. Could getting nurses to do this too help people with HIV to stay on their treatment, and so get infection rates down? Mia Malan finds out from a doctor who’s lived through HIV with his patients for the past 20 years.
Linda Pretorius is Bhekisisa’s content editor. She has a PhD in biosystems from the University of Pretoria has been working as a science writer, editor and proofreader in the book industry and for academic journals over the past 15 years. At Bhekisisa she helps authors to shape and develop their stories to pack a punch.
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 23, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 19, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 14, 2023
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 11, 2023
From the pitch to print, health reporter Zano Kunene takes you on the journey of how his passion for sports led to writing on sports-related brain injuries.
Yolanda Mdzeke is a multimedia reporter at Bhekisisa.
- Yolanda Mdzekehttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/yolanda/March 12, 2024
- Yolanda Mdzekehttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/yolanda/March 8, 2024
- Yolanda Mdzekehttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/yolanda/March 6, 2024
- Yolanda Mdzekehttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/yolanda/March 5, 2024
In South Africa, the demand for donor organs far outstrips the supply — not because people aren’t signing up for donation, but rather because there aren’t policies in place to manage the transplant chain. Spain, though, has managed to fix the problem in their country. Can we learn from them?
Christina Pitt is a health journalist at Bhekisisa.
- Christina Pitthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/christinapitt/March 1, 2024
- Christina Pitthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/christinapitt/January 29, 2024
- Christina Pitthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/christinapitt/October 4, 2023
- Christina Pitthttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/christinapitt/August 28, 2023
Linda Pretorius is Bhekisisa’s content editor. She has a PhD in biosystems from the University of Pretoria has been working as a science writer, editor and proofreader in the book industry and for academic journals over the past 15 years. At Bhekisisa she helps authors to shape and develop their stories to pack a punch.
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 23, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 19, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 14, 2023
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 11, 2023
What should journalists do when presidents say the wrong thing — report the story or bury it? A medical doctor, editor, Rhodes Scholar and New York City’s health commissioner during COVID take a deep dive.
Nina Acharya is a DPhil candidate studying the political economy of global health at the department for social policy and intervention at the University of Oxford.
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Helene-Mari is a South African medical doctor doing a fellowship in Global Health with the Rhodes Trust at Oxford University.
- Helene-Mari van der Westhuizenhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/helene-mari-van-der-westhuizen/September 7, 2021
- Helene-Mari van der Westhuizenhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/helene-mari-van-der-westhuizen/March 19, 2021
- Helene-Mari van der Westhuizenhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/helene-mari-van-der-westhuizen/October 26, 2020
Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/February 26, 2024
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/February 6, 2024
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/January 30, 2024
- Mia Malanhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/December 11, 2023
Dave Chokshi is a physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York and Sternberg family professor of leadership at the City University of New York, and a former health commissioner of New York City.
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To help keep kids safe from drug overdoses, lawmakers in the US state of Colorado say schools can have an anti-overdose medicine in their emergency kit — and are making it available cheaply or even for free. But not all schools are signing up. Here’s why.
Rae Ellen Bichell is a Colorado correspondent for KFF Health News.
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Virginia Garcia Pivik is the founder and CEO of Garcia Pivik & Pivik.
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Left untreated, an HIV infection can cause inflammation in someone’s brain and lead to mental health problems. But antiretrovirals can stop it from happening. Mia Malan finds out how it works in this Health Beat interview.
Linda Pretorius is Bhekisisa’s content editor. She has a PhD in biosystems from the University of Pretoria has been working as a science writer, editor and proofreader in the book industry and for academic journals over the past 15 years. At Bhekisisa she helps authors to shape and develop their stories to pack a punch.
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 23, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 19, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 14, 2023
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 11, 2023
Nepalese men who go abroad for better jobs, often find that they struggle to build a family when they get back home. Fertility experts weigh in on the link between migration labour and infertility.
Pete Pattisson is a video and photo journalist based in Kathmandu.
- Pete Pattissonhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/pete-pattisson/January 22, 2020
- Pete Pattissonhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/pete-pattisson/May 24, 2018
Ishwar Rauniyar is a freelance contributor at The Guardian in Kathmandu.
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The world is far behind its TB targets. Hoping to reduce TB deaths by 75% by 2025, world leaders have only managed to bring it down by 5.6% so far. Climate change, however, can derail these targets even more. The changing climate increases poverty, overcrowding, and malnutrition, the primary drivers of TB.
Linda Pretorius is Bhekisisa’s content editor. She has a PhD in biosystems from the University of Pretoria has been working as a science writer, editor and proofreader in the book industry and for academic journals over the past 15 years. At Bhekisisa she helps authors to shape and develop their stories to pack a punch.
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 23, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/January 19, 2024
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 14, 2023
- Linda Pretoriushttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/linda-pretorius/December 11, 2023
Nicole Ludolph is a health journalist at Bhekisisa.
- Nicole Ludolphhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/nicoleludolph/February 19, 2024
- Nicole Ludolphhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/nicoleludolph/February 6, 2024
- Nicole Ludolphhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/nicoleludolph/December 13, 2023
- Nicole Ludolphhttps://dev.bhekisisa.org/author/nicoleludolph/November 29, 2023