[LISTEN] You bank your money each month, so why not bank your breast milk?

25 Mar 2019

We always tell moms breast is best but sometimes milk doesn’t come when babies do. This breast milk bank is filling in these gaps.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founding director and editor of the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism at the Mail & Guardian. She heads up a team of fifteen permanent and freelance staff members. She loves drama, good wine and strong coffee, not necessarily in that order.

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Could an implant the size of a match stick save teenage girls from HIV? Find out.

Mia Malan - 12 Jun 2019

Bhekisisa editor Mia Malan talks to HIV scientist Salim Abdool Karim about his research on risky relationships of young women and older men.

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Did the apartheid government inject black people with HIV? We look to science.

Mia Malan - 13 Mar 2019

This month, the New African boasts a shocking headline: "We deliberately spread Aids in South Africa." Could that be true?

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[LISTEN] This mom became a sex worker and her daughter is fine with it

Mia Malan - 8 Feb 2019

Sex work is selling a service, not your body, says Mariska Majoor. There's nothing sinister about it.

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[PODCAST] Each one teach one: Doctors, traditional healers tackle psychiatric illness

Bhekisisa Team Author - 13 Dec 2018

Medical doctors and traditional healers often struggle to trust each other. But in this rural KZN community they learned how to work together.

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[LISTEN] Clueless about your period? There are consequences

Mia Malan - 22 May 2018

It may come round every month, but a lot of us still don't know how our menstrual cycle works, says reproductive health doctor, Tlaleng Mofokeng.

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[LISTEN] Why are women in ‘blesser-like’ relationships more likely to contract HIV?

Mia Malan - 9 May 2018

Reproductive health doctor Tlaleng Mofokeng explains to Bhekisisa editor Mia Malan why age-disparate relationships make women more vulnerable to HIV.

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Blessers and blessees: Why do we have so many?

Mia Malan - 4 Apr 2018

Bhekisisa editor Mia Malan asks reproductive health doctor Tlaleng Mofokeng why older men prey on younger women.

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[LISTEN] How (not) to clean your vagina

Mia Malan - 16 Mar 2018

Our Mia Malan speaks to medical doctor Tlaleng Mofokeng about how to stay happy and healthy down there.

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DA’s Moodey joins leadership race

The head of the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng says he wants to take his experience to the national level

Lester Kiewit - 24 Feb 2020

Africa

Inside Uganda’s controversial ‘pregnancy crisis centres’, where contraception is discouraged

Undercover investigation shows that controversial US-linked centres are defying government policy and providing inaccurate medical information

Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu & Lydia Namubiru - 24 Feb 2020

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Coronavirus reaction: Sinophobia with Western characteristics

Western media has racialised the coronavirus outbreak, leading to increased Sinophobia in several countries. Such dehumanisation of a race has no place in functioning democracies

Ahmed Olayinka Sule - 24 Feb 2020

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Pam Golding facilitates African kleptocrats’ money laundering

Government must take steps to clean up the country’s dirty real estate market, which has long offered a safe haven for criminals

Khadija Sharife & Mark Anderson - 21 Feb 2020

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