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Will the Earth’s changing climate make TB spread faster? - Bhekisisa
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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...
on Oct 3
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Health Beat #22 | Aaron the Outspoken: Do all roads lead to NHI? - Bhekisisa
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Compromise isn’t a word favoured by the Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, when it comes to rolling out universal healthcare, despite objections from some of the ANC’s coalition partners. Mia Malan sits down with Motsoaledi to find out how he plans to deliver National Health Insurance amid legal...
on Aug 26
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28 years after the first South African students left for Cuba to study medicine, an increasing number of Cuba-trained doctors are in senior leadership positions in South Africa’s healthcare space. Bhekisisa’s Sean Christie followed five of them.
on Aug 16
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Having diabetes is bad enough. But what happens when climate change is added to the mix? - Bhekisisa
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Extreme heat, heavy floods, air pollution and infectious diseases will make dealing with diabetes harder and increase rates of the disease, research shows. In the latest edition of Climate Connection, we unpack what changing weather patterns will mean for keeping blood sugar levels in check.
on Aug 10
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Has psychiatric care in our government health system improved eight years after Life Esidimeni during which 141 mental health patients died because of negligence? Health Beat visits a community mental health organisation, talks to Section27, the Gauteng government and a counselling organisation,...
on Jul 30
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#AIDS2024: 4 sets of data — which one does the government use to track HIV targets? - Bhekisisa
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The world has 18 months left — until the end of 2025 — to reach targets countries like South Africa signed up to in 2021. So where’s SA at? That’s tricky to answer, because the country uses four different ways to track this — and the numbers are not the same. We break down which set of data the...
on Jul 24
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Before the end of the year, 867 government health facilities will start to roll out the two-monthly HIV prevention injection, CAB-LA. The US government’s Aids fund, Pepfar, has donated 231 000 doses over two years to South Africa — 96 000 of the doses will arrive between October and December.
on Jul 22
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Faster tests, shorter treatments: How new tech could help slow down drug-resistant TB - Bhekisisa
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From early next year, the health department could look to start using tests that can show if the genetic make-up of tuberculosis (TB) germs has changed in such a way that they could be resistant to antibiotics. This was from a presentation at the 8th South African TB Conference in Durban on...
on Jun 7
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Governments around the world use social grants to help the poor. It’s no different in South Africa. But what happens if the help is not enough? Find out from a family in the rural Eastern Cape.
on May 22
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Access to good, affordable healthcare is a right, not a privilege, which is why the party you plan to vote for should take it seriously. Find out if it does and, if so, how it plans to do so.
on May 21
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Election Manifestos Analysis Tool - Bhekisisa
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A government’s decisions can mean the difference between life and death. To help you make sense of what parties’ promises mean when it comes to health, we’ve put together a handy analysis tool.
on May 8
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How a rural KZN site is helping the world find a TB jab - Bhekisisa
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A new tuberculosis vaccine is being tested in South Africa as part of a large study in which about 20 000 people from seven countries will get their shots. We visited a rural site in KwaZulu-Natal to see how the trial is being rolled out.
on Apr 12
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#SliceOfLife: I get R7 for every ARV parcel I deliver to patients on my bike - Bhekisisa
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With a fifth of antiretroviral or chronic medication parcels left uncollected in the Chris Hani district in the first three months of this year, bicycle deliveries by Siphelo Lose are a lifeline to people in rural areas who can’t get to clinics. In this #SliceofLife he shares his story.
on Apr 3
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Does SA’s biggest killer show up in your party’s manifesto? - Bhekisisa
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A curable and preventable disease is South Africa’s biggest killer. Is your political party going to do something about it — and does it show up in their election manifesto?
on Mar 25
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Suspicion, stigma and systems: Africa’s healthcare story - Bhekisisa
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At a conference towards the end of last year, some of the great names in African public healthcare shared their lessons about what can — and can’t — work on the continent, from setting up new hospitals to implementing national health insurance. Sean Christie was there.
on Mar 2
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Floods, food and families: Why climate change makes eating well harder - Bhekisisa
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Even though there is enough food in South Africa to feed the whole country, not everyone can access that food. Women-headed homes are especially hard hit when it comes to hunger, and as weather patterns change because of global warming, this could worsen. Will political parties in the upcoming...
on Feb 21
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Eating to survive: How to know if your party is taking hunger seriously - Bhekisisa
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David Harrison breaks down five ways in which hunger among children can be decreased and explains why it’s important to hold the party you plan to vote for accountable to do something about food insecurity.
on Feb 13
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Can South Africa stop cervical cancer in the next 40 years? - Bhekisisa
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About 10 000 women in South Africa get this cervical cancer every year. But it can be prevented by getting a vaccine against the human papillomavirus, which causes this type of cancer. The government wants to wipe out cervical cancer by 2063 — like Australia is on track to do by 2030. Here’s how.
on Feb 2
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Will the Earth’s changing climate make TB spread faster? - Bhekisisa
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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...
on Jan 23
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Experts at COP28 have warned that the climate crisis threatens to put us back in the fight against HIV. Floods and droughts will make it harder to adhere to daily treatment and to access HIV prevention medication, and will increase the demand for transactional sex.
on Nov 30
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#COP28: ‘You’re negotiating with our health’ — WHO - Bhekisisa
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Health is high on this year’s COP28 agenda, with 65 health ministers attending the world’s most important climate conference. The World Health Organisation is pushing for ministers to get their governments to endorse a declaration that asks countries to commit to deal with the effects of...
on Nov 29
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Bending the curve: What a decade-long roll-out of the anti-HIV pill can teach the world - Bhekisisa
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What can the roll-out of a two-monthly HIV prevention injection learn from how the daily anti-HIV pill was introduced? Create demand, make the jab easy to get hold of and ensure it’s not stigmatised, write Wawira Nyagah and Mitchell Warren.
on Nov 28
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From start to finish: Five lessons for making mRNA jabs - Bhekisisa
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The global rise in tuberculosis cases is showing no signs of slowing down. The need for a new vaccine is as urgent as ever, and now a local pharmaceutical company is joining the race to find one. Find out more about the work they did to propel themselves into this position.
on Nov 17, 2023
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Slash the price by three-quarters — government on anti-HIV jab - Bhekisisa
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The health department says ViiV Healthcare’s non-profit price for their anti-HIV jab, CAB-LA, is four times what it can pay. In 2022, just over 164 200 people in South Africa became newly infected with HIV. Can we afford to go without the shot?
on Nov 16, 2023
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Can we stop TB from killing people? The world’s largest gathering kicks off - Bhekisisa
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In Paris today, experts on lung health from across the globe are coming together at The Union’s World Conference on Lung Health to talk about how TB research can help to thwart one of the planet’s top killers. We’ve put together a collection of our most recent coverage on TB to help you be part...
on Nov 15, 2023
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There is no planet B: How HIV can teach us to deal with the climate crisis - Bhekisisa
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Climate change is to public health today what Aids was 30 years ago, experts say — and it could put a spanner in the works for ending Aids as a public health threat by 2030. Yogan Pillay writes in an op-ed today what lessons we can take from responding to HIV to tackle the health effects of...
on Nov 14, 2023
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Over a million SAs have used the HIV prevention pill - Bhekisisa
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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?
on Oct 25, 2023