PUBLIC HEALTH OP-ED Targeting dementia's key risk factors may be far more effective than seeking a cure 6 min 0 By Alexa Soule, Stephan Rabie and John Joska
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED Eye health services in the public sector are critically impaired, and its high time the health department responds 4 min 3 By Haseena Majid and Rene Sparks for Spotlight
HEALTH EMERGENCY As the mpox virus sweeps through Africa, here’s what SA is doing to curb the outbreak 3 min 2 By Lerato Mutsila
THE CONVERSATION Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected, and could now turn into the next global pandemic 4 min 7 By Wolfgang Preiser and Cheryl Baxter and Jean Nachegaa
SPOTLIGHT Childhood vaccine coverage in SA declined in 2023, World Health Organization report finds 6 min 0 By Elri Voigt for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT ‘We were the first to do it’: Innovative SA study takes TB testing to people’s homes 6 min 0 By Tiyese Jeranji for Spotlight
PLIGHT OF ELDERLY Elder abuse in the spotlight as teen charged with assaulting his grandmother 5 min 2 By Vincent Cruywagen
ANCIENT DISEASE OP-ED TB kills 148 South Africans daily — here’s what we need to do better to eliminate it 5 min 1 By Yogan Pillay and Gaurang Tanna
DISINFORMATION CRISIS African anti-rights groups and anti-vaxxers unite in global conspiracy against WHO 7 min 6 By Kerry Cullinan
WORLD HYPERTENSION DAY ‘Take salt shaker off dinner table’: health practitioners warn against deadly high sodium intake 4 min 0 By Naledi Sikhakhane
PROTECT THE YOUNG OP-ED Predatory practice or creative liberty — the fight over alcohol advertising by celebrities in Ghana 5 min 0 By Kristina Sperkova and Labram Musah
COVID FALLOUT OP-ED No pandemic treaty without equity — Global South should resist the pressure to adopt paper promises 6 min 0 By People’s Health Movement
TAKING CARE Fight against TB is gaining ground in SA, but there’s a long way to go, say scientists 5 min 0 By Takudzwa Pongweni
SUGARCOATING Babies and toddlers climbing aboard Nestlé’s sugar train — but only in poorer countries 5 min 3 By Lillian Roberts
RETHINKING TB CARE OP-ED Despite advances, tuberculosis remains an acute disease in need of chronic attention 5 min 0 By Dillon Wademan and Amrita Daftary
HEALTH EMERGENCY OP-ED WHO talks on pandemic preparedness on brink of legitimising inequity 8 min 0 By KM Gopakumar
BHEKISISA Postpartum haemorrhage: A plastic sheet can save 70,000 lives a year — here’s how 5 min 1 By Isabella Ochieng
SELF-SCREENING OP-ED Cervical cancer a disease of poverty and inequity — inclusive treatment access is essential 4 min 2 By Ntombi Sigwebela
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS ‘The health system is on its knees’ — WHO condemns attacks on hospitals in Gaza 5 min 2 By Mark Heywood
SPOTLIGHT IN-DEPTH What the new WHO TB numbers mean for South Africa 6 min 1 By Catherine Tomlinson for Spotlight
