Basic foods increase by 15 percent
The price of basic foods eaten by low-income households has increased by 15 percent in the past year, and many households cannot get through the month any longer.
Kerry Cullinan
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Global plan to fight superbugs
Pneumonia, gonorrhoea and urinary tract infections that no longer respond to antibiotics are fast becoming a reality worldwide.
The battle over ‘healthy’ food
There is a huge global battle – often covert - over what constitutes healthy food. But civil society organisations in countries like Mexico are taking on the propaganda of ‘Big Food’ – and winning.
Mission impossible? Replacing abuse with empathy
Abused in labour, depressed after giving birth – pregnancy can be a nightmare for women. But an inexpensive intervention is trying to change this by teaching care-givers to listen, empathise – and identify depression.
Set limit on antibiotic use, say experts
Global health experts want world leaders to set country-level limits on the use of antibiotics to combat a looming crisis of drug-resistant “superbugs.”
The big sugar battle
Tax sugary drinks, says government. Unfair discrimination, say beverage companies. What is the best way to address our fat nation?
Transgender may be removed as mental disorder
The process of getting transgender declassified as a mental disorder took its first steps with a study conducted in Mexico City.
Glimmers of hope and sobering setbacks
The more knowledge we accumulate about HIV, the trickier the virus appears to be. And despite sophisticated ARVs, people are tired of taking their pills.
Growing problem of HIV and hypertension
Three-quarters of people on antiretroviral treatment at a clinic in Khayelitsha were also being treated for hypertension.
AIDS funding has ‘dwindled to nothing in Zim’
Martha Tholanah last drew a salary almost a year ago, but the Zimbabwean activist has not stopped working to advance human rights in her country despite a lack of funds.
Need double the efficiency, says Gates
If we are going to treat twice as many people with HIV, we need to double our efficiency because we’re not going to get double the money, warned billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.
Roche ‘booby-trapped’ for cancer drug price
Women protesting against the high cost of breast cancer medicine draped bras all over pharmaceutical company Roche’s stand at the AIDS 2016 conference.