Health

How Big Tobacco stalls SA’s smoking and vaping law

How Big Tobacco stalls SA’s smoking and vaping law

When first introduced, strict rules on tobacco advertising in South Africa helped cut smoking from 32% to 24% over a decade. But 20 years later, adult smoking prevalence has stagnated at around 20%

Is the NHI channelling Operation Dudula’s healthcare blockades?

Is the NHI channelling Operation Dudula’s healthcare blockades?

While groups like Operation Dudula flood the zone with fear, confusion and misinformation around healthcare access for foreign nationals, that space has been easy to muddy, something only exacerbated by provisions in the National Health Insurance Act

Two superbugs causing over half of infections that kill newborns in Soweto and outsmarting treatment

Two superbugs causing over half of infections that kill newborns in Soweto and outsmarting treatment

Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand’s vaccines and infectious diseases analytics unit analysed small tissue samples of 1 586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg.  With the people in the area living in from informal settlements to structured houses, the cases […]