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Diabetes: the epidemic South Africa can’t track 

If we cannot even count how many South Africans are living with diabetes, how can we possibly claim to be addressing the epidemic?
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To vaccinate or not: what drives parents’ choices

The lag in immunisation has been attributed to several factors, including disruptions caused by COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine hesitancy.
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Key takeaways from Motsoaledi’s Health Budget Vote speech

R64.8bn health budget targets HIV, staffing and health facility upgrades.
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How Community Champions are Strengthening the Response to TB

We must look beyond health facilities and prioritise community-based strategies that complement person-centred TB care.
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The growing concern of early-onset cancers and what you can do

In my practice, we have experienced a 30% increase in the number of patients under the age of 40 who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Healing the Healers: Why so many healthcare workers struggle with depression and anxiety

Other reasons for the high rates of depression and anxiety include gruelling hours, emotional fatigue, constant exposure to trauma, and a culture that often equates vulnerability with weakness.

No Clinics, No Data, No Justice: How South Africa Is Failing Sex Workers

On International Sex Workers Day, we confront a grim reality: escalating violence, collapsing health services, and a government that continues to criminalise and ignore sex workers’ rig

HIV: 5 ways community-led and community-based services are delivering beyond HIV 

by Christoforos Mallouris, Regional Adviser Equality And Rights For All, UNAIDS Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa  Communities of people living with or affected by HIV have been at the forefront of delivering HIV-related services since the beginning of the HIV epidemic. UNAIDS, under the 2gether 4 SRHR Programme, recently launched a publication highlighting the significant role of community-led and community-based service delivery in shaping the HIV response and influencing broader health outcomes with far-reaching success. These grassroots initiatives are people-centred, addressing the holistic needs of individuals, and they are reaching the most vulnerable. As a result, they are transforming healthcare systems and changing lives in lasting ways that go beyond HIV. Community-led and community-based systems are showing us how healthcare should be delivered. Here are five of the most compelling ways:  1. Tackling mental health and trauma in the community  Mental health support is often overlooked in formal

Time to reframe healthcare leadership: South African HR policies are holding us back

The structure of South Africa’s healthcare system relegates other health professions to supporting roles.

Minister Motsoaledi -We are not AfriForum. We are the reason you have a health system to defend

To liken HIV activists to AfriForum is more than a false equivalence, it’s a betrayal of those who turned a denialist state into a global public health success.

SAPS and emergency response: ‘Police not equipped to transport patients’

Police vehicles are not equipped with emergency life-saving equipment and as such, transporting an injured patient with a police vehicle might worsen the injury and even worse.

South Africa has the scientific expertise to make our own vaccines, but we need political will 

South Africa’s potential as a biotech hub is not just a matter of national interest, but of regional significance.

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