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Fight the fakes: how to beat the $200bn medicine counterfeiters

Article Helen Lock & Bhekisisa Team - 10 Jun 2019

Armed with blockchain and AI, health workers and campaigners are battling the bogus business that kills thousands.

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One stop to justice: Inside this country’s answer to the Thuthuzela Care Centres

Article Bhekisisa Team & Josephine Chinele - 6 Jun 2019

Chikwanekwanes are trying to make it easier for rape survivors to get care, counselling and legal help under one roof but it's easier said than done.

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Shot-caller, calculated, master of survival. SA, meet your new health minister.

Article Mia Malan, Laura Lopez Gonzalez & Bhekisisa Team - 31 May 2019

Will Ramaphosa’s new health minister wield enough power to bring recalcitrant MECs to heel?

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How did an otherwise healthy man with a broken leg end up dead in a hospital ceiling?

Article Nelisiwe Msomi & Bhekisisa Team - 30 May 2019

The bizarre case from Durban is at least the second such case nationally in the last three years.

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Ageing and the secrets of our genes

Article Erika Hayasaki & Bhekisisa Team - 30 May 2019

A rare condition has caused this man’s body to age at super speed. Why?

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Should health experts use social media? Here’s why it can be your own printing press

Article Bhekisisa Team Author & Bhekisisa Team - 30 May 2019

Public health officials and journalists are like two peas in a pot — they need each other.

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Pregnant? Not on medical aid? You might be footing the bill to bring home baby

Article Bhekisisa Team - 29 May 2019

Women may be paying the price for decades’ old concessions to the medical aid industry.

This country has upheld its ban on gay sex. Here’s why it could be deadly.

Article Adriaan Van Klinken & Bhekisisa Team - 28 May 2019

“The failure to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations will undermine Kenya’s aim of reaching universal health coverage,” UNAids says.

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Whatever happened to the doctors & nurses involved in the #LifeEsidimeni tragedy

Article Nelisiwe Msomi & Bhekisisa Team - 27 May 2019

These health workers presided over one of the deadliest tragedies since the dawn of democracy. Find out why they can still practice.

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‘Not every day is perfect, but it’s a bit better’

Article Ewan Watson & Bhekisisa Team - 24 May 2019

Humanitarian assistance doesn’t always work right away. That doesn’t mean we should stop trying.

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‘Go and we die, stay and we starve’: the Ethiopians facing a deadly dilemma

Article Tom Gardner & Bhekisisa Team - 22 May 2019

In the rarely visited town of Gedeb, fears are rife over state plans to return 150 000 people to areas they fled because of ethnic violence.

Why Discovery Health didn’t pay up

Article Bhekisisa Team - 17 May 2019

Would you join a medical aid if you were perfectly healthy? Most won’t. That’s why we need waiting periods, says Discovery CEO Jonathan Broomberg.

Why medical aids are putting the price of a safe delivery on some women’s pockets

Article Fatima Hassan & Bhekisisa Team - 17 May 2019

When medical schemes and the law count conceiving as a pre-existing condition, pregnant women lose.

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Are the medical aids really fleecing you?

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez & Bhekisisa Team - 17 May 2019

There's good news and bad news when it comes to PMBs.

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How to get South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Article Nelisiwe Msomi & Bhekisisa Team - 16 May 2019

These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.

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China’s overfishing of Africa: The lure and the lies

Article Hannah Summers & Bhekisisa Team - 15 May 2019

Scientists and campaigners warn that factories in coastal villages are wreaking environmental and economic havoc.

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What your doctor is thinking when they say, ‘I’m afraid I have some bad news’

Article Morgan Pantuck & Bhekisisa Team - 13 May 2019

Doctors have turned to scientific studies for guidance on talking with patients, but the results have largely left them guessing.

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The bad news about delivering bad news

Article Morgan Pantuck & Bhekisisa Team - 13 May 2019

Doctors have turned to scientific studies for guidance on talking with patients, but the results have largely left them guessing.

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