Through the looking glass: Silencing the critic
In her latest column on mental health, writer Jocelyn Fryer talks about what bipolar treatment meant for her body and what her new body meant for her.
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Through the looking glass: Learning to love life with bipolar
My confession is this: I have bipolar, writes Jocelyn Fryer as she she reflects on being hospitalised with bipolar and how she has learned to adjust to life after her diagnosis.
Rural Reflections: Park homes and preemies
Our monthly column profiling the realities of rural health is back as we follow another community service doctor through her year at a rural hospital. In her first entry, our doctor settles in to her new home but it is not long before she is in the deep end.
True Life: Flipping the switch, hearing again
Hearing her mother’s voice for the first time in five years brought tears to her eyes, writes tuberculosis (TB) activist Phumeza Tisile just weeks after cochlear implants restored the hearing multidrug-resistant TB treatment took from her.
Free State protest for community health workers
Bloemfontein recently came to a standstill as community health workers (CHW) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) marched to the magistrate’s court in support of 118 health workers arrested in July last year.
Opinion: SA needs clear e-cigarettes legislation
City of Cape Town warnings that it will seek to clarify legislation around e-cigarettes and hookah pipes is a responsible move, writes Dr Dominique Stott, executive for medical standards at the Professional Provident Society financial services company.
Opinion: The fight for the right to food
South Africa’s Constitution is one of just 20 in the world that recognises the right to food, but realising that right will mean re-thinking agriculture and re-connecting with the source of our food, writes Busiso Moyo with the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute think tank.
Opinion: A faster track to National Health Insurance
With the majority of South Africans still denied affordable access to quality healthcare, it’s time to find a faster track to deliver universal health coverage, writes Metropolitan Health CEO Dylan Garnett.
Op-ed: New food policy lacks meat without public consultation
On 22 August 2014, the National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security for the Republic of South Africa was gazetted. If this is news to you, you’re not alone, writes Section27 attorney Sasha Stevenson.
Opinion: Time to decriminalise prostitution
Sex workers have the same rights as other citizens, writes Maria Stacey, acting director of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT).
True Life: “I will never get used to not hearing”
Activist and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) survivor Phumeza Tisile writes about how a misdiagnosis cost her hearing and what life has been like since.
Your rights as an employee living with HIV
While awareness of HIV has increased dramatically since the first World AIDS Day event 26 years ago, discrimination against those who disclose their HIV status is still rife in the workplace.