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The ECHO trial is out: Depo Provera doesn’t lead to HIV

Videos Staff Reporter - 13 Jun 2019

After 30 years of speculation about whether the three month shot makes women more likely to contract HIV, we finally have an answer.

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

Podcasts 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.

There’s more to gender than ‘men’ & ‘women’. Here’s why.

Videos Staff Reporter - 3 Jun 2019

Cisgender, transgender, non-binary. What does it all mean? We give you the low down.

Forced abortions: The crime no one is talking about

Videos Staff Reporter - 10 May 2019

Nomthandazo* thought her and her partner were happily expecting their first baby together. She was wrong.

Precarious politicking: What the law says about foreigners and healthcare in SA

Videos Laura López González - 6 May 2019

Did you know that anyone hailing from SADC has the right to be treated just like a South African?

Sex work and soccer: More alike than you think?

Videos Staff Reporter - 26 Apr 2019

One in three sex workers in South Africa say they’ve been raped by a police officer. Could a change in the law solve this?

Heroin withdrawals: Could this drug be the answer?

Videos Staff Reporter - 23 Apr 2019

Programmes letting people swap illegal highs for medications are popping up all over the country. Here’s how they work.

This is how a SA toddler died at the #Bosasa-run Lindela

Videos Joan Van Dyk - 6 Feb 2019

Find out what you need to know about Bosasa’s alleged corruption in just minutes with our Joan van Dyk.

Leaving home means leaving family – and could have health implications

Videos Joan Van Dyk - 23 Jan 2019

Leaving home means leaving your friends, family and social support. But it's worse than that.

On the road: Go inside the farm clinics making sure workers are never far from care

Videos Staff Reporter - 13 Dec 2018

They're not only good for workers' health, they're good for business too.

Nurse: ‘I had to supplement my income. That’s when I got into sex work.’

Videos Staff Reporter - 12 Dec 2018

Joan Collins* worked as an intensive care nurse in Cape Town. But that's not the only way she made a living.

WATCH: All the ways the world polices sex

Videos Staff Reporter - 22 Oct 2018

The Swedish model, legalisation, decriminalisation — does the sex work debate leave you confused? Look no further.

Watch this man’s amazing transformation after he kicked heroin with the help of this

Videos Staff Reporter - 14 Sep 2018

When people with diabetes inject insulin, we don't see that as an addiction. So why is opioid substitution therapy considered one?

[LISTEN] Clueless about your period? There are consequences

Podcasts 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.

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

Podcasts 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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