Where is Health Reporting in the region?

A Health Reporting Conference under the theme “Opening up New Possibilities through Dialogue”, took place from the 10th to the 11th of May in Johannesburg, South Africa. Organised by Wits University and Africa Media Assignments the conference sought to find out the state of health reporting in South Africa. […]

AIDS denialism is not a new phenomenon by any means. It has been around since the epidemic began virus popped up in the 1980s. One would think that in the face of the overwhelming scientific evidence, denialists might have quietened down over time, but that is far from the case.
However, denial is not an unusual […]

The media has missed an opportunity to report on and expose working conditions in the public health care sector in their coverage of the large-scale public sector strike.
In their latest newsletter the Treatment Action Campaign draw attention to how the media has focused on the actions of striking workers but have not examined the […]

South African comedian David Kau has a column in the June 10 th edition of the new daily newspaper The Times. His article "Double-ply condoms for higher grades" is disturbing – and not just because it isn’t funny.
Kau suggests that a solution for the high numbers of pregnancies among teenage girls in South Africa […]

Recently there has been a focus on a preaching approach to tackling the spread of HIV/AIDS. There has also been a significant amount of criticism around this approach. The ‘ABC’ campaign has failed to produce any significant results, despite its being foregrounded as the preferred approach to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. Even the […]