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Our HIV reporting

Testing Post

Oliver Genthe - August 16, 2026
Bhekisisa crossword

BHEKISISA CROSSWORD #10

Bhekisisa Team - July 27, 2026
Our HIV reporting

#Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters

Mia Malan, Linda Pretorius and Karen Harkema - July 27, 2026
Our HIV reporting

#Aids2026 | What HIV got right — but obesity still hasn’t 

Francois Venter, Simiso Sokhela, Nzama Mbalati and Yvette Raphael - July 24, 2026
Cutting costs: The Health Professions Council says the lack of tariff guidelines adds to spiraling healthcare costs.
Articles News and analysis

Dummies’ guide to medical tariffs

By Mia Malan
 
February 14, 2013

Health professionals are finding the state’s planned guidelines for fees a bitter pill to swallow.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.

  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 29, 2026
    #Aids2026: We analysed SA’s first LEN roll-out data. Here’s what we found
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 27, 2026
    #Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 8, 2026
    Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    June 29, 2026
    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment?
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
Articles News and analysis

Minister wants to stop patient rip-offs

By Mia Malan
 
February 14, 2013

Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the guideline tariffs.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.

  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 29, 2026
    #Aids2026: We analysed SA’s first LEN roll-out data. Here’s what we found
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 27, 2026
    #Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 8, 2026
    Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    June 29, 2026
    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment?
McCord Hospital served black people from a 'white area' during apartheid and survived all attempts to remove it.
Articles Opinion

McCord Hospital: Defending a legacy of healthcare integrity

By Catherine Burns
 
February 8, 2013

For 100 years Durban’s non-profit McCord Hospital has been a beacon of hope for the poor. Now it has to rely on the state to survive.

Catherine Burns

Catherine Burns is a historian based at Wiser, the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the co-author, with Dr Julie Parle and Dr Vanessa Noble of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, of a history of McCord Hospital that will be  published in 2013

  • Catherine Burns
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/catherine-burns/
    McCord Hospital served black people from a 'white area' during apartheid and survived all attempts to remove it.
    February 8, 2013
    McCord Hospital: Defending a legacy of healthcare integrity
Surviving the process of childbirth is still a battle for many women in Africa.
Articles Opinion

Birth, a measure of progress

By Babatunde Osotimehin
 
January 25, 2013

Reducing maternal and newborn mortality has to be a priority if Africa is to reach its potential.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Dr Babatunde Osotimehin is the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund.

  • Babatunde Osotimehin
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/babatunde-osotimehin/
    Surviving the process of childbirth is still a battle for many women in Africa.
    January 25, 2013
    Birth, a measure of progress
Kholekile Rouben Mdaka is one of 3500 claimants bringing a class ­action against Anglo American South Africa.
Articles Features Short Form

Silent killer lurks in miners’ lungs

By Heidi Swart
 
January 25, 2013

Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.

Heidi Swart

Heidi Swart is the Eugene Saldanha fellow in social justice reporting.

  • Heidi Swart
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/heidi-swart/
    Kholekile Rouben Mdaka is one of 3500 claimants bringing a class ­action against Anglo American South Africa.
    January 25, 2013
    Silent killer lurks in miners’ lungs
Features Long Form

Rural hospitals in terminal crisis

By Mia Malan
 
September 7, 2012

Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for this hospital to function.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.

  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 29, 2026
    #Aids2026: We analysed SA’s first LEN roll-out data. Here’s what we found
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 27, 2026
    #Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 8, 2026
    Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    June 29, 2026
    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment?
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Features Long Form

A doctor born of hope

By Mia Malan
 
January 6, 2012

This man from rural Eastern Cape had to travel all the way to Cuba to make his dream of becoming a doctor come true. Now, he is back home and treating patients at the same hospital his mother used to sell fruit in front of when he was a boy.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.

  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 29, 2026
    #Aids2026: We analysed SA’s first LEN roll-out data. Here’s what we found
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 27, 2026
    #Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 8, 2026
    Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    June 29, 2026
    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment?
Shattered dreams: A tradition called ukuthwala sees girls as young as 13 years forced into marriages with older men.
Articles Features Long Form

Is today’s ukuthwala a perversion of an earlier tradition?

By Mia Malan
 
December 15, 2011

The kidnapping of young girls ignores the ‘niceties’ of a cultural practice.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.

  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 29, 2026
    #Aids2026: We analysed SA’s first LEN roll-out data. Here’s what we found
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 27, 2026
    #Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 8, 2026
    Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    June 29, 2026
    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment?
Nongezile Sinkala walked 7km across hilly terrain and thick bush to get to the nearest taxi rank to take her sick grandson to the hospital.
Articles Features Long Form

‘God make us strong, I beg you, keep Luphumlo alive’

By Mia Malan
 
November 11, 2011

Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.

  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 29, 2026
    #Aids2026: We analysed SA’s first LEN roll-out data. Here’s what we found
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 27, 2026
    #Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 8, 2026
    Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    June 29, 2026
    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment?
Articles News and analysis

Government bans ‘unsafe’ baby bottles

By Mia Malan
 
October 28, 2011

A controversial plastic additive is said to affect foetuses and increase the risk of breast cancer.

Mia Malan

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.

  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 29, 2026
    #Aids2026: We analysed SA’s first LEN roll-out data. Here’s what we found
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 27, 2026
    #Aids2026: Daily pill. Monthly pill. Six-monthly jab. Why choice matters
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    July 8, 2026
    Health Beat #39 | Inside SA’s illegal weight-loss drug trade
  • Mia Malan
    https://staging.bhekisisa.org/author/mia/
    June 29, 2026
    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment?
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