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“The system is going to implode”: Cancer treatment backlogs grow after Charlotte Maxeke fire

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Four years ago, the virtual collapse of cancer services in KwaZulu-Natal saw some desperate patients move to Gauteng for care. Now, a new crisis is again prompting those who can, to relocate for treatment. Laura Lopez Gonzalez reports.

“The system is going to implode”: Cancer treatment backlogs grow after Charlotte Maxeke fire

HIV and cervical cancer: Behind SA’s extraordinarily high numbers

Posted in: HIV/AIDS, Latest, Reproductive Health

A study recently published in The Lancet found that women living with HIV made up an astonishing 63.4% of new cervical cancer cases in South Africa in 2018. Elri Voigt spoke to local experts about the links between HIV and cervical cancer in South Africa and how cervical cancer is prevented, tested for, and treated in the public sector.