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Autopsy reports show that some of the 30 initiates who died last month in the Eastern Cape were assaulted by traditional surgeons.

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After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities ...

Many mothers who work as domestic workers have to make an impossible choice: keep your job or breastfeed your child. It’s a ...

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In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan and Anna-Maria van Niekerk introduce us to Buhle Sikade, 22, who for the past three years, has been taking the revolutionary anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. Don’t miss out.

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