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Mara Kardas-Nelson is a journalist with the Mail & Guardian's Centre for Health Journalism, where she focuses on access to medicine, health policy, financing, and planning. She has been contributing to the Mail & Guardian since 2009, writing on a wide variety of topics ranging from the environment to development to local culture. In 2010 she shared a Mondi Shanduka Newspaper award with photographer Sam Reinders for their work on acid mine drainage in Gauteng and Mpumalanga. Her work has appeared in publications across Africa, North America, and Europe.
Those who survived Ebola are stigmatised, often ostracised by their communities and denied healthcare.
Sierra Leoneans who survived the disease suffer long-term side effects and are in dire need of support, which in itself is becoming problematic.
Almost a year after the first complaints were filed with the HPCSA about Dr Dube, the Limpopo doctor’s medical licence has been stripped.
Despite the stereotypes, there is a pressing need for men to play more of a role in HIV support.
Hundreds of thousands of HIV patients could be affected by Pepfar’s shift in funding policy, according to a new report.
Rwanda, too, has succeeded in doing what this country has only been talking about for 18 years..
A recent Cape Town AIDS conference showed a shift in the global mood on HIV.
Fixing healthcare needs a multidisciplinary approach, not just a medical focus.
A new complaint has been filed against Limpopo doctor Allick Dube.
Two young women are proving to the world that the most deadly strain of TB can be beaten.
Four Messina Hospital staff members, who are also shop stewards for the union Nehawu, have been dismissed for inciting strike action against a doctor.
The country is fighting the intellectual property laws that hiked up the cost of its HIV programme.
Skewed state funding has left many centres dependent on fees that patients can’t afford, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.
One man’s mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.
Some have lauded the draft policy, saying it could make medication cheaper, but others say it is "unimpressive" and "almost contradictory".
A generic version of a key cancer drug is now available in South Africa, but at a significantly higher cost than it is available internationally.
A young pharmacist is driving a project to get Tanzania to make more of its own medicine.
Congolese refugees in Uganda are banding together to make a life outside the ‘diseased’ state refugee camps.
With its boda bodas,vibrant nightlife and top cuisine,it sure is full of fun for a city known more as a way station than a destination.
Despite an ongoing probe into alleged misconduct, he’s back at Messina Hospital – as chief executive.
