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[WATCH LIVE] Blessers, blessees & HIV: SA’s risky relations and what to do about them

Article Bhekisisa Team Author & Bhekisisa Team - 12 Jun 2019

Bhekisisa's latest policy dialogue takes a deep dive into one of the biggest challenges facing SA's HIV response at the 9th Aids conference.

BREAKING: How this KZN town used ARVs to cut new HIV infections by 83%

Article Laura Lopez Gonzalez & Bhekisisa Team - 12 Jun 2019

Small town, big goals: Eshowe has become one of the first SA communities to put enough people on HIV treatment to reduce new infections in the area.

How do we reduce new infections by 60% in a mere three and a half years?

Article Bhekisisa Team & Yogan Pillay - 12 Jun 2019

Today, SA boasts the world's largest HIV treatment programme, but 3.2-million people who need ARVs still aren't on them. Here’s how to fix that.

Rape crisis centres nationwide lose counsellors

Article Nelisiwe Msomi & Bhekisisa Team - 11 Jun 2019

The rresident promised more funding to the country’s one-stop centres for victims of abuse. But can provinces afford to make good on his promise?

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.

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?

Making the sale: Re-branding the HIV prevention pill for women

Article Nelisiwe Msomi & Bhekisisa Team - 29 Mar 2019

Since the country’s national rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking PrEP are young women — despite high HIV rates among them.

The clock is ticking for DR-TB patients. How long will they wait for a kinder cure?

Article Kristen Van Schie & Bhekisisa Team - 22 Mar 2019

For years, catching this drug-resistant bacteria meant painful treatment that risked your hearing and mental health. Now, that could be changing.

When climate & health collide: SA’s policy doesn’t have the teeth — or the money

Article Garret Barnwell - 7 Mar 2019

The health department is bracing itself for a perfect storm when climate change and our over-stretched health system collide. But is it doing enough?

Are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?

Article Sasha Stevenson - 6 Mar 2019

Recent national and Gauteng memos demanding all foreign patients pay in full for services likely fell foul of the law.

[WATCH] Busted: Three myths about drug addiction

Videos Joan Van Dyk - 18 Feb 2019

If you think shutting down needle exchange programmes will keep your city free of contaminated needles, think again.

‘I didn’t think it was necessary to use condoms because I was only 15.’

Article Joan Van Dyk - 14 Dec 2018

This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.

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.

Plant, pick, pack: Finding Mpumalanga’s missing fruit pickers

Article Joan Van Dyk - 10 Dec 2018

In this province, the agricultural and mining sectors draw thousands of workers each year – and then they disappear. Here’s why we need to find them.

Elsa and Nosipho: they both sell sex for a living but in opposite worlds

Article Mia Malan - 6 Dec 2018

Does sex work legislation have an impact on gender-based violence and HIV infection rates? We traveled to Amsterdam and Durban to find out.

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