As the fallout regarding misinformation about vaccines and antiretrovirals shows, words can kill.
Access to ARVs is improving, but poor attitudes to patients are aggravating maternal mortality rates.
New medicine combines ARVs into one pill, making them easier to supply.
The <em>M&G’s</em> new health journalism centre is ready to make its mark, scrutinise and inform.
An industry-wide probe into private healthcare seems likely, but stakeholders fear a witch hunt.
Why would young, single African women not take free drugs that could potentially save them from contracting a life-threatening infection?
According to HIV prevention trial results, the daily use of pills or a vaginal gel does not appear to prevent HIV-infection in African women.
The solution lays in addressing ‘how we raise our boys’ and "how we equip parents to be parents". But there’s a long way to go.
Bhekisisa aims to improve health reporting not only at the M&G but also at media houses across the continent.
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