Flight attendant grounded because of HIV status
Flight attendant grounded after disclosing HIV status. By Ufrieda Ho
Sexual and reproductive health rights should matter to all
Why have sexual and reproductive rights remained controversial and contested in Africa? Building on a previous SRHR-focussed Spotlight article by Thuthu Mbatha and Mark Heywood, Tendai Mafuma takes on this difficult question.
Health Minister should be given greater powers
We need to amend the National Health Act (No. 61 of 2003) so as to give the Minister of Health greater powers to intervene in provinces and avert disasters in provinces. If we do not, the Minister’s hands will remain tied when it comes to the next Life Esidimeni, the ongoing oncology crisis, and the non-placement of medical interns, argues Dr Ndiviwe Mphothulo.
Open letter to President Ramaphosa: time to turn a disease system back into a health system
Thank you for what you are doing to try and restore good governance to our country and root out corruption. I am sorry to have to add more challenges to your to-do list.
The cost of strike
Jovial Rantao, editor of the African Independent, wrote this personal reflection on the cost of the strike in the NorthWest.
How rural stereotypes are being broken in Bulungula
An innovative project in Bulungula in the Eastern Cape is showing how quality healthcare and education can be provided in a deep rural area.
Funding shock threatens leading health programme for MSM
A trend-setting programme that forms a core part of the South African government’s health services tailored to the needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) is at risk of closing much of its operations because the US government has stopped its funding.
How “Nomakhayas” beat a scabies outbreak
With tenacity, teamwork and a plan of action, a group of community health workers in the Eastern Cape show just how effective they can be in bringing better healthcare to a rural community. UFRIEDA HO met these local heroes.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Wrongs: What do we need to do to get them right? – An activist perspective: Part 2
Part 1 in the series ends with the statement that we have become complicit with a horrendous status quo. We kick off Part 2 with some suggestions about how we can change this.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Wrongs: What do we need to do to get them right? – An activist perspective: Part 1
In a two-part article, Mark Heywood and Thuthu Mbatha, attempt to ask, and suggest some answers to, the hard and painful questions arising from the articles in Spotlight.
Lack of PrEP for young women is a rights violation
With around 2 000 new HIV infections every week in young women and girls aged 15 to 24, South Africa is facing an urgent HIV crisis in young women.
Living positively: Saidy Brown, Mafikeng
Ufrieda Ho, Spotlight, and Leonora Mathe, Treatment Action Campaign Saidy Brown shares how she used social media to speak openly about her HIV [caption id="attachment_6257" align="alignright" width="191"] Saidy Brown, one…