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Four toilets, built in 2013 by the organisation Candice Andisiwe Sehoma founded, are still flushing, although floods of raw sewage flow daily through the streets of Alexandra. (Sean Christie)
AIDS

Building toilets, fighting TB: Candice Andisiwe Sehoma’s life of activism

From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients

  • Sean Christie
10 min read
According to a survey, 85% of managers reported that their clinics faced staffing shortages, though only one in five blamed these on the US President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief cuts
AIDS

Clinics short-staffed after Pepfar funding cuts

According to a survey, 85% of managers reported that their clinics faced staffing shortages, though only one in five blamed these on the US President’s Emergency Plan For Aids…

  • Liezl Human
2 min read
The Health and Human Rights Oral History Project’s video testimonies that capture three decades of health activism from around the world, might provide a blueprint for the next wave of HIV activism. (Bhekisisa)
AIDS DENIALISM
Video

Fighting for funds: A new era of HIV activism

Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang…

  • Ida Jooste
9 min read
The future of our healthcare system is in our hands; we approach it with responsibility, collaboration and a deep commitment to the well-being of all people. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
AIDS

Collapse of the health system must be reversed, says TAC

Bill which aims to provide universal care through a state-run fund is being reviewed by President Cyril Ramaphosa This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers.…

  • Umamah Bakharia
1 min read
Emergency: Nurse Salome Nkoana at Tembisa Hospital . The increased demand in Gauteng for oncology services has led to the establishment of treatment centres in the Chris Hani Baragwanath and Dr George Mukhari academic hospitals. (Guillem Sartorio/AFP)
ASHLEIGH TRICHARDT

Specialists, nurses quit country’s ailing public health system

South Africa’s nurses are moving to the private sector or being recruited to high-income countries that are affected by the global shortage of healthcare professionals

  • Marcia Zali
11 min read
Treatment Action Campaign members and supporters march to demand answers from the MEC for health, Dr Makhura at the premieres office in Newtown. (Photo: Andy Mkosi)
ANELE YAWA

Treatment Action Campaign demands Makhura fix Gauteng’s health system ‘mess’ now

The TAC wants the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, closed after a fire in April, to reopen fully as soon as possible, because other hospitals are overburdened.

  • Chris Gilili
4 min read