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In India, legal training helped people hold their health system to account and slash child deaths. Some experts in SA say revitalising the country’s largely defunct clinic committees can be a way to hold the NHI to account. (Money Sharma/AFP)
COUNTRY

NHI: How you can take back your power

Public comment on the NHI has closed, but there are other ways you can add your voice

  • Joan Van Dyk
6 min read
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The NGO Action Breaks Silence runs the Hero
COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION

Romeo and Juliet are sexting: Will SA’s new sex-ed prepare kids for life and love?

From “sinister sexual behaviours” to “lies” and efforts to “manufacture ignorance”, Joan van Dyk looks at the high-stakes sex-ed fight

  • Joan Van Dyk
12 min read
Smoky business: According to tax returns, the dpeartment of psychiatry and mental health agreed to take R1-million from Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, which is funded by Phillip Morris International. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
BIG TOBACCO

Big Tobacco’s R1m for UCT stubbed out

The university says it had no idea researchers had signed up to take Big Tobacco money but the decision could have lasting effects

  • Joan Van Dyk
8 min read
Come for the game, stay for the check-up: Being coached by a former Bafana Bafana player is just one way Whizzkids helps draw young people into its health services. (Wikus de Wet)
HEALTHCARE

An SMS a day keeps teens alive

By making a devastating mistake, this clinic proved it was on the right track

  • Joan Van Dyk
7 min read
Many solutions have been proposed around the world, and one of them is to treat drug abuse as a crime but as a health crisis.
HARM REDUCTION

[WATCH] Busted: Three myths about drug addiction

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

  • Joan Van Dyk
  • Dylan Bush
1 min read
Joan van Dyk tells you what to bin and how in under two minutes.
ENTERPRISE FOODS

[VIDEO] How to clear your fridge of listeria

Joan van Dyk tells you what to bin and how in under two minutes.

  • Joan Van Dyk
  • Dylan Bush
1 min read
JOAN VAN DYK

Will smacking your kids make them violent?

Experts suggest that banning corporal punishment in the home could lead to a less violent society. Joan van Dyk explains.

  • Joan Van Dyk
  • Dylan Bush
1 min read