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Roxy de Villiers

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Roxy de Villiers

Roxy de Villiers was the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism social media content producer and engagement officer. She believes the personal is political and has an interest in reporting on queer health issues. She honed her skills in community media and has also worked with the Rosebank-based community radio station, Radio Today, as a guest newsreader.

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The quest for the (vaginal) ring

The HIV prevention tablet is now available in South Africa but popping a pill every day to stay HIV-negative may not be for everyone

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The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) will crack down on allegations of bribery at The Health Professions Council of South Africa. (Reuters)

Did the Health Professions Council trade cash for qualifications?

If allegations prove true, it may mean that corruption at the regulator enabled unqualified people to masquerade as doctors and nurses.

The Council for Medical Schemes estimates that fraud, abuse or waste accounts for about 15% of the R160-billion in claims that medical aids pay out annually. (Gallo)

Private healthcare loses more than R22-billion a year to fraud, waste

The Special Investigating Unit says it is actively targeting healthcare fraudsters.

Talking about you and the loo: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s latest annual letter was released Tuesday.

Five ways to save the world, according to Bill & Melinda Gates

The philanthropic duo give their two cents or rather $200-million on how to deal with the world’s inequalities.

How do you fix South Africa’s sexual and reproductive health wrongs? Well, helping people access their rights is a start. (Roxy de Villiers)

This bracelet could one day help keep you safe from rape, assaults

How do you fix South Africa’s sexual and reproductive health wrongs? Help people access their rights.

How technology is being used to fix South Africa’s sexual reproductive health wrongs

The #HealthMeetsTechSA Hackathon brought programmers, activists, and healthcare workers together to create technology that could promote these rights.

Words can hurt but when they stand between you and healthcare, they can be deadly.

How do you say ‘queer’ in isiZulu?

Qhawekhazi (isiXhosa) noun. Heroine / the woman who is a hero with the courage to love another woman.

Decomposed bodies, a typhoid outbreak & blame shifting. Relive the historic arbitration. (Andronica Nedzamba)
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One year on: Relive SA’s historic Life Esidimeni arbitration

The deaths of at least 144 mental health patients shook SA to its core and led to a historic arbitration that lasted more than 40 days.

Former Health MEC ?Qedani Mahlangu’s election into the Provincial Executive Committee has been called out for dishonouring the memories of those who have passed in the Life Esidimeni tragedy. (Felix Dlangamandla, Gallo)

People are still being shackled and tortured for living with this disease

The Life Esidimeni tragedy makes headlines again in a new global report.

Is menstruation a conversational taboo in your culture? Studies show you might have fewer ways to say “period”. (Lina Rigney Tho?rnblom, Flickr)

Menstruation by any other name: The more than 5000 ways we say ‘period’

Know what The Hunt for Red October is? We’re not talking about the Sean Connery movie, we’re talking about your period.

The concern raised is that it may have unanticipated effects. Do we know for certain what the effects on edited persons and their progeny will be? No. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
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Are provinces ready to take the wheel of South Africa’s HIV response?

It’s been a steep learning curve for districts that sometimes don’t have the know-how — or the data — to write and track local plans.

Luxury: South Africa’s two-tier healthcare system offers selective protection to those who can afford medical aid contributions, co-payments and out-of-pocket expenses.  (Photo Archive)

‘We are forced to move on from declaring babies dead as if nothing happens’

Saving lives — and losing them — may be all in a day’s work for health workers, but if you think it doesn’t take its toll, listen to these doctors.

The Special Investigating Unit has a year to track down lawyers and patients who file fake medical negligence claims

What’s left unsaid: Medicine and mental health

Saving lives — and losing them — may be all in a day’s work for health workers, but if you think it doesn’t take it’s toll, listen to these doctors.