Bhekisisa

Bhekisisa

The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism focuses on reporting related to health and social justice. They create engaging narrative articles, podcasts, videos, and insightful analyses that cover various issues across Africa. Their top-notch journalism is available in both digital and print formats, reaching a wide audience that includes policymakers, academics, activists, and political figures. This often leads to changes in policies, influences national discussions, and helps reshape important conversations.

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  • 3 days ago | bhekisisa.org | Tanya Pampalone

    Our so-called HIV “key populations” — men who have sex with men, transgender women, sex workers and people who inject drugs, and, in Africa also young women — have been hard hit ever since the Trump administration stopped most of its HIV funding in February. Key populations have a much higher chance of getting HIV than general populations which is why Pepfar, over the past decade, allocated most of its funds to programmes working with such groups.

  • 2 weeks ago | bhekisisa.org | Mia Malan

    It’s been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again. Activists are saying the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and the minister is accusing the activists and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation.

  • 3 weeks ago | bhekisisa.org | Mia Malan

    ADHD medication is sometimes abused, for example, when university students without the condition use it to study better. The reality, however, psychiatrist Renata Schoeman tells Mia Malan in this podcast, is that the medicine doesn’t work for people without ADHD. In fact, it can worsen their performance.

  • 1 month ago | bhekisisa.org | Mia Malan

    The national health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) projects in South Africa will end by September 30. The department has calculated that it needs R2.82-billion to plug the gap for the rest of the financial year after the Trump administration cut more than half of such support to the country in February.

  • 1 month ago | bhekisisa.org | Mia Malan

    In South Africa, the proportion of primary school children with ADHD who use government health facilities is as low as 1.72% because the public sector doesn’t have enough of the right health workers to diagnose people. Eight in 10 people with the condition have a child, parent or sibling with it. Many adults only discover they have ADHD when their children get diagnosed and they recognise the symptoms in themselves. Malan asks Schoeman: can you outgrow the condition? Find out.

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