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In 2011

ARVs alone won’t save HIV infected mothers

Ina Skosana and Mia Malan -
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the primary donor of this revolutionary initiative in global health data dissemination.

Aids most prevalent cause of early deaths in SA

Amy Green -
Surviving the process of childbirth is still a battle for many women in Africa.

Birth, a measure of progress

Babatunde Osotimehin -
Kholekile Rouben Mdaka is one of 3500 claimants bringing a class ­action against Anglo American South Africa.

Silent killer lurks in miners’ lungs

Heidi Swart -

Rural hospitals in terminal crisis

Mia Malan -
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A doctor born of hope

Mia Malan -
Shattered dreams: A tradition called ukuthwala sees girls as young as 13 years forced into marriages with older men.

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

Mia Malan -
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.

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

Mia Malan -
|Marching for cheaper drugs: HIV and Aids activists in New Delhi

NHI: History repeats itself

Gavin Mooney -
A pack-a-day smoking habit during pregnancy will reduce a baby's birth weight by an average of 230g

‘I saw the world through the blurry lens of an oxygen...

Mia Malan -

Dying in the line of duty

Mia Malan -
An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is.

Bianca learns to Beat It

Mia Malan -

Death in the Free State

Mia Malan -

Cape doc tipped for health post

Mia Malan -
Traditional leaders are resisting plans to introduce medical circumcision.

Cut and mistrust

Mia Malan -
More women than men get tested. According to Sanac this may be because women go for a test when they fall pregnant.

Take2: Winds of change sweep SA healthcare

Mia Malan -
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