Health

Durban protesters block roads, demanding local clinic be re-opened

The Newtown A clinic has been closed since the floods in April 2022

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Brief | 12 August 2024

How we know a new medicine is so effective at preventing HIV transmission

There was not a single HIV transmission in a clinical trial in which women volunteers used the twice-yearly injectable drug lenacapavir

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Science | 1 August 2024

Nurses stop work after finding human waste at clinic door

Mabandla Clinic in Kariega still has no fence or wall

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Brief | 30 July 2024

Judge blocks government plan to tell private hospitals and doctors where they can go

“Certificate of Need” scheme thrown out of National Health Act

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Law | 24 July 2024

Court finds Netcare failed to protect employee against an abusive surgeon

Operating theatre manager wins her case

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Law | 16 July 2024

Farm workers demand transparency on pesticide regulations

Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says protest was “premature”

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Brief | 5 July 2024

Outcry over loss of sports field to make way for a hospital in Gugulethu

The site is a poor choice and the impact on the community was not considered, say residents

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Brief | 2 July 2024

President urged to make sanitary pads free

I_Menstruate Movement launches “period poverty” exhibition in Franschhoek

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Brief | 24 June 2024

Mpox in South Africa: here’s what we know

Health department reports second death from the disease

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News | 13 June 2024