‘Let’s pray you’ll be okay’: My escape from a backyard drug rehab
By Zano Kunene South Africa plans to roll out treatment for opioid addiction to all government health facilities by 2028, according to a draft of the country’s sixth HIV action…
By Zano Kunene South Africa plans to roll out treatment for opioid addiction to all government health facilities by 2028, according to a draft of the country’s sixth HIV action…
By Zano Kunene Big changes are coming to South Africa’s fight against sexually transmitted infections, according to a draft of the country’s fifth HIV action plan. Free home tests for…
By Zano Kunene Medicine shortages are common. But what happens when a shortage of an effective medication happens because people who the medicine isn’t intended for are drying its stocks?…
Testosterone treatment can help ease psychological distress for transgender men because it results in changes that make them feel more at home in their bodies, such as a beard and…
By Joan van Dyk, Danny Booysen HIV doctor Francois Venter explains why the treatment of obese people reminds him of the bad old days of the HIV epidemic. STANDARD END…
By Hazel Marimbiza in BULAWAYO THE government says it has increased its efforts to combat cervical cancer by launching screening programmes for HIV-positive women. This comes after research by the…
By Zano Kunene, Yolanda Mdzeke What happens when there’s a natural disaster, like a flood, and people living with HIV aren’t able to take their chronic medication? Watch to find…
BLANTYRE — Schools in Blantyre and Lilongwe, two major cities in Malawi, have reopened after the government demanded all classes suspended in the two cities for two weeks following an…
BY Mia Malan, Mohale Moloi and Linda Pretorius A scholarship programme has been producing doctors for South Africa’s understaffed rural hospitals since 1999, but provinces don’t have the money to…
BY Mohale Moloi, Dylan Bush, Yolanda Mdzeke, Jessica Pitchford, Mia Malan, Ntuthuko Gumbi This story was produced by the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. Sign up for the newsletter.