Is tax alone enough to pay for the National Health Insurance?
The NHI Act says funding healthcare for all should come from tax but economic growth is in a vice and many people are without jobs
How much does public transport save on carbon emissions? We worked it out at COP29
Bhekisisa had a team of four reporters at the climate conference. On average, our journalists walked eight to nine kilometres a day
Here’s where women in SA are most likely to be murdered
Seven women are killed in the country each day and nearly six in 10 of such murders are at the hand of an intimate partner
One in seven mothers in South Africa are teens, data shows
Nearly 365 teenagers give birth in South Africa every day, with 10 of those daily births to mothers younger than 15
What it would it take to get the 6-monthly anti-HIV jab to South Africa
Lenacapavir drug can be made for as little as R740 per year for each patient
Not easy to track how well South Africa is doing with getting people on to ARVs
The world has 18 months left to reach targets that all United Nations member countries signed up to in 2021
South Africa to roll out HIV prevention injection CAB-LA in clinics, with US donation
CAB-LA virtually eliminates someone’s chances of contracting HIV, but costs about four times more than the government can afford to pay
Will the new Eastern Cape govt give people of Ngcobo back their 24/7 health centre?
After 2022, the Ngcobo Community Health Centre in the rural Eastern Cape ceased operating 24 hours every day because spiralling crime and dry taps made it impossible for workers to operate at night
How does anti-HIV medication work — and would you use it?
Implementation trials start soon in South Africa to help researchers find out what will make people use a two-monthly anti-HIV jab
Taken by storm: Why climate change makes transactional sex more common
Because it involves one partner who provides the other with a reward in exchange for sex, it’s not an equal power relationship