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Hasina Subedar, who is overseeing the health department’s introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP medication, lenacapavir, has a more informal title: South Africa’s queen of PrEP roll-outs. Photo: Jay Caboz
FORT NAPIER

Somebody call Hasina

Amid the mostly depressing HIV headlines of recent times, concerned as they mainly are with the deadly impacts of donor defunding, South Africa’s imminent roll-out of a…

  • Sean Christie
15 min read
‘I’m really actually quite amazed that I managed to navigate that kind of playing the game but not playing the game for as long as I did,’ — Caitlyn Collins, self-proclaimed midwife. (Getty)
CAITLYN COLLINS

The ‘radical birth keeper’ involved in twin baby deaths

Negligence of ‘birth keeper’ could have caused death of twins, who were stillborn.

  • Eunice Masson
11 min read
CORONAVIRUS

What happens when you walk into a vaccination site? We break it down

The health department has issued new guidance on how South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination sites should handle ‘walk-ins’.

  • Mohale Moloi
  • Aisha Abdool Karim
5 min read
Tackling gender imbalances in our health system would save lives and herald a healthier future (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
HEALTH COSTS

Employing more nurses can reduce total health costs

Having sufficient numbers of nursing staff leads to better patient care and safety. This, in turn, lessens the financial burdens placed on the healthcare system, a study has found

  • Tiyese Jeranji
11 min read
According to the Commission for Gender Equality’s latest report, this practice is a direct attack on HIV-positive women.
COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY

Forced sterilisation is ‘inhuman’

According to the Commission for Gender Equality’s latest report, this practice is a direct attack on HIV-positive women

  • Shaazia Ebrahim
4 min read
SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING COUNCIL

[From our archives] Zamani – the hero of Hlabisa

From taxi driver to TB-care champion, Zamani Dlamini brings hope to the sick in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

  • Ina Skosana
8 min read
HEALTH AND ALLIED

SA nursing council workers to strike

Workers at the South African Nursing Council have gone on strike, demanding a 10.5% pay rise after an offer of 7%.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
ASANDA FONGQO

E Cape health dept rejects ‘illegal’ nurses

The Eastern Cape health department will not recognise nurses trained at illegal nursing schools because the schools do not train quality nurses, the department said on Thursday.…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read