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Good Morning Cape Town with Lester KiewitPepfar survives cuts but what will it mean for South Africa?Lester Kiewit speaks to Mia Malan, the founder and editor in chief of Bhekisisa, about how the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, or Pepfar, has been spared a $400-million funding cut by the US government. But what will it mean for the local network of Hiv/Aids programs and workers that have already been impacted? Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is a podcast of the CapeTalk breakfast show. This programme is your authentic Cape Town wake-up call. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is informative, enlightening and acce...2025-07-2210 min
Drive with John PerlmanSA gets R520-million to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jabJohn chats to Mia Malan, The Founder and Chief Editor of Bhekisisa, about the country's twice-yearly receipt of R520 million to buy the anti-HIV vaccine, but it comes at a challenge. 702 Drive with John Perlman is a Johannesburg based talk radio show. John and his team keep you company on 702 each weekday afternoon. Catch up with the news and issues of the day with John who interviews the daily newsmakers and makes sense of what is going on. John and his team invite you to join their daily conversation, as you travel through the traffic. ...2025-07-1509 min
Vuka Online Radio Podcasts3725 - Vuka Healthcare Hour with Colleen Qvist joined by Mia Malan- PodcastThe Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism is an independent media organization that specializes in narrative, solutions journalism, focusing on health and social justice issues across Africa.Join us on the 3 July 2025 at 12pm CAT on www.vukaonlineradio.co.za as we have a chat with our host Colleen and a special guest Mia Malan.Be sure to join us2025-07-0341 min
I-SynapseLingo Funda isiNgisiFunda isiZulu Ngobuciko BeMculoThola indlela yokuphila ngebhande lomculo ngendlela ehlukile!
Bhekisisa uhambo lukaEmma, umculi osemncane, njengoba ethola ubuciko bemculo nokuthi isiko libaluleke kanjani empilweni. Qhubeka ufunde isiZulu ngezinto ezihambisana nomculo, uhambise i-AI ukuze ufunde kalula!2025-04-2910 min
THE MORNING BRIEFCan we truly keep celebrating Freedom Day while things fall apart? Guest: Bhekisisa Mncube: Author and Columnist2025-04-2810 min
The National PulseWorld Tuberculosis Day: Trump ends SA's HIV and TB research grantsCancellation letters, which end billions of rands of South African universities’ US-government funded HIV and TB research grants with immediate effect, started to roll in over the weekend. Mia Malan, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Bhekisisa, joins me on the line to break down the impact this will have on research initiatives around HIV and TB… GUEST: Mia Malan, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Bhekisisa2025-03-2409 min
Into The Dark111. The Man In The CeilingIn this episode, Payton delves into a baffling mystery—multiple hospital patients discovered in the most inexplicable places.NEW MERCH LINK: https://mwmhshop.comTwitch: twitch.tv/throatypieInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/intothedarkpod/Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbh-B5Or9CT8Hutw1wfYqQListen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-dark/id1662304327Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36SDVKB2MEWpFGVs9kRgQ7Case Sources:Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism - ht...2025-03-1938 minThe National PulseTrump orders USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut downPepfar-funded HIV organisations in South Africa, who receive their funds through the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, woke up to letters that were sent overnight telling them their grants have been ended, permanently. For more on this, I am joined on the line by… GUEST: Mia Malan, founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa2025-02-2710 min
Update@NoonTrump administration pulls permanent plug on USAID-funded SA HIV organisationsThe Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism reports that Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in South Africa, who receive their funds through the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, woke up to letters that were sent overnight telling them their grants have been ended — permanently. The document also instructs them to "immediately cease all activities, terminate all sub-awards and contracts, and avoid incurring any additional obligations. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Health Department spokesperson Foster Mohale2025-02-2706 minThe National PulsePepfar projects are exempted from Trump’s ban on aid for SA US President, Donald Trump, recently banned foreign aid to South Africa. Founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa, Mia Malan joins me on the line to breakdown how this ban works as it has been reported that the ban does not include Pepfar projects. Guest: Mia Malan, Founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa2025-02-1113 min
The Jet Set BreakfastLetter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: Private healthcare probably saved my life — don’t kill it a thought piece on Daily MaverickGUEST: BHEKISISA MNCUBE - Author and Columnist who won the national 2024 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award for columns/editorials, as well as the same category at the regional 2020 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards. 2025-01-2016 min
First Take SAOne in seven moms in South Africa are teenagersOne in seven moms in South Africa are teenagers. Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism says nearly 365 teenage girls give birth in South Africa every day, with 10 of those daily births to moms younger than 15. The organisation says moreover and according to data from the Human Sciences Reseach Council, many young moms in South Africa also have HIV. To discuss this further Elvis Presslin spoke to Bhekisisa's News Editor, Anna-Maria van Niekerk2024-09-2014 min
Px PulseLenacapavir: The case for investing in delivering HIV preventionThe promise of long-acting PrEP has been super-charged this year by studies showing the powerful efficacy of an antiretroviral known as lenacapavir (LEN).
This episode of PxPulse goes deep on LEN for PrEP. Recorded just days before Gilead’s announcement that PURPOSE 2 also found very high efficacy, Dr. Flavia Kiweewa, a principal investigator of PURPOSE 1, the first trial to announce efficacy, lays out the research findings and what they mean. And Chilufya Kasanda Hampongo of Zambia’s Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign and Mitchell Warren of AVAC talk about how to change a long history of squandered opportunities to ge...2024-09-1931 min
DNA Don't LieEpisode 18: Teteteke Gqotsi and Sandile SibiyaIn this episode, the gang starts off by talking about recent concerts, getting old, and Trader Joe's. Jackie finishes off the episode by telling us about the strange cases of Teteteke Gqotsi and Sandile Sibiya.Sources:https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/strange-indoors/2021/1/24/the-mysterious-south-african-body-in-the-ceiling-cases-murder-or-teleportationhttps://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/how-did-patient-end-up-dead-in-hospitals-ceiling-11732163https://paranormal-world.fandom.com/wiki/The_High_Strangeness_Death_of_Teteteke_Gqotsihttps://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/we-are-losing-hope-family-still-seeks-answers-over-body-found-in-ceiling-24824780https://www.facebook.com/CapeTimes/posts/2330715566986231/https://bhekisisa.org/article/2019-05-30-00-patient-found-dead-in-hospital-ceiling-durban-mystery/...2024-09-1929 min
Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and EntrepreneurshipS4, Ep.9 What do balconies have to do with food security?Did you know that in 2021 about 2.1 million, or 11,6%, of South African households reported experiencing hunger? Food insecurity remains a major social justice issue in South Africa due to the country’s history of inequality. What if vulnerable communities could relearn the lost art of cultivating and growing their own food again?
Our guest for this episode, Renschia Manuel, founder of GrowBox Nursery, is showing local communities how to do just that, even in small spaces. Renschia has her own story of food insecurity and shares how she went from being unemployed to running a successful social enterprise which he...2024-09-0432 minJust for a ChangeS4, Ep.9 What do balconies have to do with food security?Did you know that in 2021 about 2.1 million, or 11,6%, of South African households reported experiencing hunger? Food insecurity remains a major social justice issue in South Africa due to the country’s history of inequality. What if vulnerable communities could relearn the lost art of cultivating and growing their own food again?
Our guest for this episode, Renschia Manuel, founder of GrowBox Nursery, is showing local communities how to do just that, even in small spaces. Renschia has her own story of food insecurity and shares how she went from being unemployed to running a successful social enterprise which he...2024-09-0432 min
BacklightInside Europe’s biggest journalism conferenceJournalism conferences can be an exclusive and costly space. So last month, Beatriz took her microphone to Perugia, Italy to give you some sneak peaks of the biggest trends coming out of the International Journalism Conference.
This episode features three interviews she did in Perugia discussing;
What truly collaborative investigations between global north and south partners look like, with Andrés Bermudez Lievano a Colombian journalist from Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP)
How can journalists nail vertical video on TikTok and Instagram with Enrique Anarte Lazo, a content creator and at Openly, Thomson Reuters F...2024-05-2738 min
Sibuya Nawe Express LaneSakha Isitjhaba: Bhekisisa Skhosana - Ophumileko eendakamizweni / Recovered Substance Abuse Addict2024-03-1313 min
#RISEfmIN60MINUTESRI60: Bhekisisa Chief Editor Mia Malan on the impact of Fossil Fuel on HealthRISE fm’s Musa Sikhosana hosts our ever popular current affairs show RISE fm In 60 Minutes every weekday evening, 19h00-20h00, Mon-Thurs.
RISE fm In 60 Minutes is a mixed bag of information with Musa expanding on the days top news stories and highlighting business, lifestyle & sport issues along with listener interaction. RISE fm2023-11-0908 min
The View Point#HealthOnMonday: We’re in conversation with Joan van Dyk, the news editor at Bhekisisa. She recently wrote an article that speaks about how the past three health ministers have failed the nursing profession by not speeding up on the necessary amendments to give nurses more authority in prescribing and dispensing medicines, and eventually easing the burden on the public health system.Guest: Joan van Dyk, News Editor at Bhekisisa We’re in conversation with Joan van Dyk, the news editor at Bhekisisa. She recently wrote an article that speaks about how the past three health ministers have failed the nursing profession by not speeding up on the necessary amendments to give nurses more authority in prescribing and dispensing medicines, and eventually easing the burden on the public health system. Medicines such as antidepressants are grouped under schedule five and the prescription schedule for narcotic painkillers such as morphine is one level higher. Medicines at these levels hav...2023-04-1821 min
The Running VoyagerDaluhlanga Majeke on Running 100 Milers and Achieving Big GoalsSend us a textDaluhlanga Majeke is a father, husband, ultra runner and the head of the Eastern Cape Provincial Treasury.In this episode we talk to Dalu about his start in running ultras, growing up in the Eastern Cape, the importance of family as well as resilience and achieving big goals. LinksAddo Ultra trail Drakensburg BooksThe Mamba Mentality - by Kobe BryantDr Bhekisisa J. MthembuSet Your OWN GOAL To Achieve Your Dreams: The Leadership Journey ImaginedLeadership...2023-03-081h 29
Top Six Archives - The Mail & Guardian‘We’ve failed as clinicians’: This HIV doctor is changing how he treats overweight patients. Here’s why
The HIV treatment dolutegravir doesn’t cause weight gain, research shows. So what’s really happening? It’s a combination of factors.
One reason is that dolutegravir isn’t as harsh as older antiretrovirals (ARVs), so it doesn’t cause weight loss. Researchers think the weight gain is a sign that someone is getting better on ARVs. Then, they’re experiencing the same issues that many other South Africans do because they don’t have easy access to healthy food.
Meanwhile, the medical establishment is grappling with its cruel treatment of obese people, who are often labelled “lazy” when the biggest reasons for...2023-02-0601 minMail & Guardian Listen‘We’ve failed as clinicians’: This HIV doctor is changing how he treats overweight patients. Here’s why
The HIV treatment dolutegravir doesn’t cause weight gain, research shows. So what’s really happening? It’s a combination of factors.
One reason is that dolutegravir isn’t as harsh as older antiretrovirals (ARVs), so it doesn’t cause weight loss. Researchers think the weight gain is a sign that someone is getting better on ARVs. Then, they’re experiencing the same issues that many other South Africans do because they don’t have easy access to healthy food.
Meanwhile, the medical establishment is grappling with its cruel treatment of obese people, who are often labelled “lazy” when the biggest reasons for...2023-02-0601 minNational News brought to you by South Africa's best read!‘We’ve failed as clinicians’: This HIV doctor is changing how he treats overweight patients. Here’s why
The HIV treatment dolutegravir doesn’t cause weight gain, research shows. So what’s really happening? It’s a combination of factors.
One reason is that dolutegravir isn’t as harsh as older antiretrovirals (ARVs), so it doesn’t cause weight loss. Researchers think the weight gain is a sign that someone is getting better on ARVs. Then, they’re experiencing the same issues that many other South Africans do because they don’t have easy access to healthy food.
Meanwhile, the medical establishment is grappling with its cruel treatment of obese people, who are often labelled “lazy” when the biggest reasons for...2023-02-0601 minPodcasts – The Mail & Guardian‘We’ve failed as clinicians’: This HIV doctor is changing how he treats overweight patients. Here’s why
The HIV treatment dolutegravir doesn’t cause weight gain, research shows. So what’s really happening? It’s a combination of factors.
One reason is that dolutegravir isn’t as harsh as older antiretrovirals (ARVs), so it doesn’t cause weight loss. Researchers think the weight gain is a sign that someone is getting better on ARVs. Then, they’re experiencing the same issues that many other South Africans do because they don’t have easy access to healthy food.
Meanwhile, the medical establishment is grappling with its cruel treatment of obese people, who are often labelled “lazy” when the biggest reasons for...2023-02-0601 min
Medical MattersA new injection that could prevent you from contracting HIV?Mia Malan | Editor at Bhekisisa See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2022-12-0517 min
How I make my moneyOther People’s Money - Mia Malan, editor-in-chief and executive director at BhekisisaGuest: Mia Malan | Director at Bhekisisa Health Journalism Centre| See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2022-03-1422 min
AudiobyteBHEKISISA | Money troubles: Why SA can’t afford Covid vaccines for children 5 to 11SA missed all its Covid vaccination goals for 2021. So what’s happening to the roll-out now?
The health department doesn’t have money to buy any more Covid vaccines this year. That includes Sinopharm, Sinovac and jabs for children. If the uptake of Covid vaccines doesn’t increase in time for looming expiry dates in June, millions of doses will have to be destroyed.
How many doses could South Africa lose? 7 million. That’s more than the United States donated to us in 2021.
Bhekisisa editor-in-chief Mia Malan speaks to Nicholas Crisp, who heads up South Africa's...2022-02-2525 minAudiobyteBHEKISISA | Money troubles: Why SA can’t afford Covid vaccines for children 5 to 11SA missed all its Covid vaccination goals for 2021. So what’s happening to the roll-out now?
The health department doesn’t have money to buy any more Covid vaccines this year. That includes Sinopharm, Sinovac and jabs for children. If the uptake of Covid vaccines doesn’t increase in time for looming expiry dates in June, millions of doses will have to be destroyed.
How many doses could South Africa lose? 7 million. That’s more than the United States donated to us in 2021.
Bhekisisa editor-in-chief Mia Malan speaks to Nicholas Crisp, who heads up South Africa's...2022-02-2525 min
Audiobyte-DELETED- BHEKISISA: Money troubles: Why SA can’t afford COVID vaccines for children 5 to 11The health department doesn’t have money to buy any more Covid vaccines this year. That includes Sinopharm, Sinovac and jabs for children. If the uptake of Covid vaccines doesn’t increase in time for looming expiry dates in June, millions of doses will have to be destroyed.
How many doses could South Africa lose? 7 million. That’s more than the United States donated to us in 2021.2022-02-2525 minAudiobyte-DELETED- BHEKISISA: Money troubles: Why SA can’t afford COVID vaccines for children 5 to 11The health department doesn’t have money to buy any more Covid vaccines this year. That includes Sinopharm, Sinovac and jabs for children. If the uptake of Covid vaccines doesn’t increase in time for looming expiry dates in June, millions of doses will have to be destroyed.
How many doses could South Africa lose? 7 million. That’s more than the United States donated to us in 2021. News24 Podcasts2022-02-2525 min
The ExplainerWhat can we learn from South Africa's Omicron wave?Mia Malan, editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa - an award-winning health journalism centre in South Africa - speaks to us about what Ireland can learn from South Africa's experience of dealing with an Omicron-fuelled surge in cases. How did the country's hospitals fare, why is South Africa so good at identifying variants - and do we finally have enough evidence to say for sure that Omicron is 'milder'?The Explainer is brought to you by The Journal. Providing open access to valuable journalism in Ireland has been the aim of The Journal for a decade. You can contribute to ensure we can...2022-01-0732 min
How to Pitch a Podcast in a PandemicEP 1: Africa Media Review - The PilotThe first episode of Africa Media Review is here! In this episode, host and journalist Steven Lang connect us with media teachers, theorists, and practitioners from around South Africa. My Only Story is making headlines and uncovering ugly truths about sexual violence in several prominent South African schools. Sibusisiwe Kumbaca and Yandiswa Calane are in conversation with My Only Story associate producer Nokuthula Manyathi about the podcast. Then we are on home ground here in Makhanda, where Garfield Khanyile facilitated the conversation between two Rhodes School Journalism and Media Studies lecturers Taryn Isaacs de Vega and Dr Priscilla Boshoff. They...2021-11-1426 minHow to Pitch a Podcast in a PandemicEP 1: Africa Media Review - The PilotThe first episode of Africa Media Review is here! In this episode, host and journalist Steven Lang connect us with media teachers, theorists, and practitioners from around South Africa. My Only Story is making headlines and uncovering ugly truths about sexual violence in several prominent South African schools. Sibusisiwe Kumbaca and Yandiswa Calane are in conversation with My Only Story associate producer Nokuthula Manyathi about the podcast. Then we are on home ground here in Makhanda, where Garfield Khanyile facilitated the conversation between two Rhodes School Journalism and Media Studies lecturers Taryn Isaacs de Vega and Dr Priscilla Boshoff. They...2021-11-1426 minThe View PointMohale Moloi | Bhekisisa Health Journalist2021-08-0316 min
Life HappensHow did these violent protests in Gauteng and KZN have an impact on the spread of #covid19?Guest: Mia Malan – Editor In Chief of Bhekisisa 2021-07-1513 min
Africa MiddayJ&J vaccinesThe South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has announced that it would not release the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following contamination concerns at one of the US drug maker's sites. The news marks a major setback in the country's vaccine rollout just as a third wave of infections is gathering momentum. Lagging behind many other countries, South Africa has only vaccinated just over one percent of its population. More from Mia Malan, Editor-in-chief of the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism.2021-06-1504 min
AM Live on SAfmSA ditching herd immunity, as it's no longer practicalSouth Africa is DITCHING the 'herd immunity Covid 19 vaccination plan, because herd immunity is no longer practical in the country. South Africa was aiming to immunise 41-million people by the end of this year in order to reach herd immunity. Health experts working for Bhekisisa confirmed that the government is now rethinking its plan and moving towards a containment strategy to reduce strain on the country's health system. We spoke to Bhekisisa's Senior Health Reporter, Aisha Abdool Karim.2021-06-0406 min
UkhoziFM Drive 3-6Uthukuthele ugane unwabu : Baba Bhekisisa usichazela ngalenkulumo ukuthi isukelaphiUkhozi FM Afternoon drive show. #UkhoziFMDrive2021-06-0104 min
Life Happens4 200 VACCINES TO BE DISTRIBUTED AT 87 SITES ON DAY 1 OF PHASE 2 VACCINATION ROLLOUTGUEST: MIA MALAN - Editor in Chief Bhekisisa Health Journalism2021-05-1714 min
Life HappensCOVID-19 REPORT - BHEKISISASouth Africa’s Covid-19 death rate for a single day spiked sharply after 130 deaths were recorded on Tuesday.This was the highest number of people to die from Covid-19 in April so far and six fold increase from the previous day when the country recorded 21 deaths.GUEST: MIA MALAN - Editor in Chief Bhekisisa2021-04-2119 min
AM Live on SAfmUS experts concerned over AstraZeneca's 'outdated' data in vaccine trial resultsAn independent review panel in the United States has raised concerns around the information released by AstraZeneca yesterday showing its COVID-19 vaccine was 79 percent effective in preventing symptomatic illness. A statement released in the early hours of Tuesday by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -- or NIAID -- pointed to concern expressed by an independent panel of experts that AstraZeneca may have included outdated information from a trial conducted in the US, Chile and Peru. The NIAID has now urged AstraZeneca to work with the Data and Safety Monitoring Board to review the efficacy data and ensure...2021-03-2419 min
Thinking Out LoudThinking Out Loud - Writing A Book - Episode 6In this episode I chat to author Bhekisisa Mncube about his experience of writing a book and he shares some practical tips.
2020-12-1617 min
African DialogueSouth Africa dramatic COVID-19 riseThe Gauteng government has expressed concern about the increasing number of coronavirus infections in the province. According to the department of health's updated report Gauteng is experiencing an alarming increase in the rate of Covid-19 infections, with increased deaths in the past 48 hours. It says that about 174 people of which 57-percent were men mainly between the ages of 50 and 79 with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension have died from Covid19. Coronavirus cases in South Africa surpass 150,000. Some 6,945 cases reported in last 24 hours. Today Benjamin Moshatama speaks to: • Professor Adrian Puren from the National Institute for Co...2020-07-0140 min
African DialogueSouth Africa dramatic COVID-19 riseThe Gauteng government has expressed concern about the increasing number of coronavirus infections in the province. According to the department of health's updated report Gauteng is experiencing an alarming increase in the rate of Covid-19 infections, with increased deaths in the past 48 hours. It says that about 174 people of which 57-percent were men mainly between the ages of 50 and 79 with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension have died from Covid19. Coronavirus cases in South Africa surpass 150,000. Some 6,945 cases reported in last 24 hours.
Today Benjamin Moshatama speaks to:
• Professor Adrian Puren from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)
• Professor Guy...2020-07-0140 min
Media Diaries: The New Normal EditionS1 E2: Media Hack Collective and the LockdownWe spend the week with Media Hack Collective, an amazing organisation that creates visualisations, multimedia stories and dashboards with the goal of spreading valuable journalism into the world.
They have built a COVID-19 dashboard in partnership with the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and it has become insanely popular...
Produced by Volume in partnership with the South Africa Media Innovation Program. Volume · SAMIP2020-04-0123 minMedia Diaries: The New Normal EditionS1 E2: Media Hack Collective and the LockdownWe spend the week with Media Hack Collective, an amazing organisation that creates visualisations, multimedia stories and dashboards with the goal of spreading valuable journalism into the world. They have built a COVID-19 dashboard in partnership with the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and it has become insanely popular... Produced by Volume in partnership with the South Africa Media Innovation Program.2020-04-0123 minVolume PodcastsS1 E2: Media Hack Collective and the LockdownWe spend the week with Media Hack Collective, an amazing organisation that creates visualisations, multimedia stories and dashboards with the goal of spreading valuable journalism into the world.
They have built a COVID-19 dashboard in partnership with the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and it has become insanely popular...
Produced by Volume in partnership with the South Africa Media Innovation Program. Volume · SAMIP2020-04-0123 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism[PODCAST] Pimps, police and pills: How nurses get healthcare to sex workersWe take you into the world of brothels and show you how a clinic gets around the law to get HIV prevention pills and antiretroviral drugs to sex workers.2019-11-2100 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismRuff justice: Meet the dogs helping put rapists in jailVictim testimonies can be key to securing convictions. They can also be traumatic. Meet the furry friends coming to the rescue.
Hearing impairment? Read the transcript here: http://bit.ly/32SQjrz2019-11-1800 min
The Harley And Josh Show04/11/2019 - music piracy on the decline, has social media ruined bands' promo skills?This week we're delving into our crazy busy week as pro musicians PLUSNews 'EU Study Reveals a Dramatic Decline in Music Piracy Among Young People'PLUSWe ask: "Has social media ruined bands’ promotion skills?"PLUSMusic from:
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2019-11-0700 min
Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismSurviving the cash crunch: Bhekisisa's road to non-profit health and social justice journalismMia Malan, journalist, gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series.2019-10-1834 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismLaura López González speaks to Kaya FM about the Competition Commission reportBhekisisa news editor Laura López González speaks to Kaya FM's David O’Sullivan about the outcome of the Competition Commission investigation into the private healthcare sector. Read her story on it here: http://bit.ly/2maojAy2019-10-1400 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismX marks the spot: Mapping our way to better healthA small private healthcare clinic on a farm in Delmas is paving the way for better patient care using new data technology.2019-10-0200 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism‘The babies we saved from HIV decades ago are now contracting the virus in their teens’As children, they escaped the virus through revolutions in medication. But today, they face an old foe again. Renowned HIV scientist Salim Abdool Karim sits down with Mia Malan to explain why their story is the story of Africa’s HIV epidemic. More here: http://bit.ly/2kBmI652019-09-1800 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismA day in the life of a paramedic in SA: “You worry, will I see tomorrow?”Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://bit.ly/2H7KD532019-08-1500 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism#SAAids2019: Could an implant the size of a match stick save teenage girls from HIV?Bhekisisa editor Mia Malan talks to HIV scientist Salim Abdool Karim about his research on risky relationships of young women and older men.2019-06-1200 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismHave a sick baby? Breast milk might help.We always tell moms breast is best but sometimes milk doesn't come when babies do. This breast milk bank is filling in these gaps and is helping premature babies survive. More here: http://bit.ly/2UVnkQH
Have a hearing impairment? Download this podcast's script here: http://bit.ly/2YrS9P22019-03-2600 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismDid the apartheid government inject black people with HIV? We look to science.This month, the New African boasts a shocking headline: "We deliberately spread Aids in South Africa." Could that be true? http://bit.ly/2TzVih42019-03-1400 min
Late Nights with Sara-Jayne KingBHEKISISA MNCUBEGuest : Bhekisisa MncubeWe met my first guest tonight for the first time last year when he spoke very candidly about his history as a perpetrator of gender based violence - tonight we delve deeper into Bhekisisa Mncube’s life as we discuss his debut memoir The Love Diary of A Zulu Boy which explores his life as a lover, husband, father and, for a part of his life an abuser - it’s a brutally honest memoir which spans his life from childhood to the present day. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...2019-02-1042 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism[LISTEN] Why this Amsterdam mom became a sex worker and her daughter is fine with itSex work is selling a service, not your body, says Mariska Majoor. There's nothing sinister about it.2019-02-1000 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismHow doctors and traditional healers work together on psychiatric illnesses and mental disordersCan traditional healers and medical doctors work together? We travel to rural KwaZulu-Natal — to a project that works with people with psychiatric illnesses — to find out.
We speak with traditional healers, family members of patients and doctors. You’ll be surprised at the outcome.2019-01-1000 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismHow (not) to clean your vaginaOur Mia Malan speaks to medical doctor Tlaleng Mofokeng about how to stay happy and healthy down there.2018-12-1800 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismSex work is still illegal in South Africa. Here's why these old laws are bad for health.Bhekisisa director Mia Malan on why South Africa should decriminalise sex work.2018-11-3000 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismWhy do women become sex workers?Mariska Majoor from Amsterdam in The Netherlands became a sex worker when she was a teenager. Five years later, she started Amsterdam’s Prostitution Information Centre that people can visit to learn more about sex work. Mariska’s daughter Robin, 21, was born during that time. Mariska prefers for her not to be a sex worker because of the “complicated life around sex work”.
Mia Malan visited Mariska and Robin in Amsterdam.2018-11-2600 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism[PODCAST] Is sex work work?Tlaleng Mafokeng is a reproductive health doctor in Johannesburg and also the deputy chairperson of the advocacy group, the Sexual and Reproductive Coalition of South Africa. She believes sex work should not be criminalised. “Just because something is undignified and you would not do it, doesn’t mean those who do it must be criminalized and punished,” she says.
Mia Malan spoke by phone to Makokeng.2018-11-2600 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismHow far is South Africa in the fight against HIV and TB? Find out.Our Mia Malan speaks to experts from the national health department, the South African National Aids Council and provincial Aids councils, as well as Section27 as part of an interactive panel hosted by the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism.2018-11-1300 min
Rhythms of AfricaInterview with DJ DOZERBhekisisa Msomi popularly known as DJ Dozer is a young artist from Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal Province in South Africa. He oozes energy on stage and boosts with a unique voice that is reminiscent of the Kwaito greats such as Zola and Mmapaputsi. He started singing in the year 2010. He has worked with great artists from South Africa like Teargas, Big Nuz, Msawawa, Mzambia & Kalawa Records Founder Oskido. His single “Mqede” is climbing charts, his brand is growing by leaps and bounds. The repertoire in the programme includes popular artists from the African Continent like Angelique Kidjo from Benin; Boss...2018-11-0211 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism'My son had death in his face'A father speaks out about the terrible conditions his son died in after being removed from state-funded hospital care at Life Esidimeni.2018-09-1000 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismWho will be held responsible for Life Esidimeni? Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez speaks to Tim ModiseLaura Lopez Gonzalez speaks to Tim Modise about who might be held accountable for the tragedy.2018-09-1000 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismPrEP User Talks Sex, Condoms And HIVBen Brown tells Mia Malan about his experience of using a pill that reduces his chances of HIV infection. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy)2018-07-2400 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismNew PrEP findings: what does it mean for South Africa?Executive director for global HIV advocacy group AVAC Mitchell Warren on what the success of on-demand PrEP could mean for South Africa. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy)2018-07-2400 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismWhat are the challenges facing PrEP in South Africa?Deputy director general in the department of health Yogan Pillay on the use of PrEP in South Africa.2018-07-2400 min
The Glenzito SuperdriveInterview with author Bhekisisa Mncube - 7 May 2018Interview with author Bhekisisa Mncube2018-05-1111 min
iAfrikan BYTESSouth Africa's Youth in ICT strategyBhekisisa Ngcobo, Chief Director (Youth and Children) at South Africa's Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, joined us on this podcast to briefly explain what the country's "Youth in ICT" strategy aims to achieve. He also elaborates on what work is being done to keep the Internet safe for children.2018-04-3005 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismSection27's Mark Heywood on the R 1.2-million award for #LifeEsidimeni families.Photo: Oupa Nkosi2018-03-1900 min
SABC Joburg News FeaturesSAFER ABORTIONS - SOUTH AFRICA***WARNING - MAY CONTAIN AUDIO THAT COULD UPSET SENSITIVE LISTENERSAbortions have been legal in South Africa for more than 20 years. Despite this there are still thousands of unsafe and illegal back-street abortions taking place, even though South Africa is one of of the few countries that places women's rights at the forefront of its priorities. This was one of the issues tackled by the Mail & Guardian's Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism at a workshop held in Johannesburg. According to Bhekisisa, people are ignorant of laws that govern the procedure, while others don't know how or where to get...2018-03-0705 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism#Listeriosis: Did Enterprise know their foods could be deadly?#Listeriosis: Did Enterprise know their foods could be deadly? by The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism2018-03-0400 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism#Listeriosis: Why did it take scientists so long to crack the case?#Listeriosis: Why did it take scientists so long to crack the case? by The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism2018-03-0400 min
RSG Nuus & AktualiteitMonitorRSG — Vir meer as twee dekades het Suid-Afrika wetgewing wat veronderstel is om aborsies wettig en veilig te maak. So hoekom word daar steeds duisende onwettige, onveilige agterstraataborsies gedoen in een van die min lande wat vroue se voortplantingsregte beskerm? Mail and Guardian se Sentrum vir Gesondheidsjoernalistiek, Bhekisisa, het die vraagstuk by 'n werkswinkel in Johannesburg gepak. Hanri Wondergem was daar.2018-03-0108 min
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismUniversity College London scientist Alison Rodger presents early findings from the PARTNERS studyListen to University College London scientist Alison Rodger present the findings of this study at the 2014 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Find the audio and slides to this presentation at http://www.croiwebcasts.org/console/player/22072?mediaType=audio&2017-11-3000 min
Media Indaba AfricaSizaMap: A database of abortion providersIn this lightning talk, junior health reporter from Bhekisisa, Joan van Dyk, provides insight into the first online database of government approved abortion facilities in South Africa called SizaMap (http://bit.ly/SizaMap).2017-11-2306 min
RSG Nuus & AktualiteitMonitorRSG — Die voormalige Gautengse LUR vir Gesondheid se beweerde akademiese verpligtinge word met agterdog bejeën. Daar is wyd berig dat Qedani Mahlangu nie spoedig kan getuig voor die Life Esidimeni Arbitrasie proses nie, omdat sy akademiese verpligtinge by die London School of Economics and Political Science in Engeland het. Die Mail & Guardian se gesondheids-joernalistiek-sentrum, Bhekisisa, het egter bewys dat sy nie 'n student daar is nie, soos Hanri Wodergem berig.2017-10-3003 minThe Bhekisisa Centre for Health JournalismThe National Health Insurance: What does it take to make it pay?Brazil's Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo has been providing healthcare for 158 years to public and private patients under the country's universal healthcare coverage. Bhekisisa's Laura Lopez Gonzalez asks hospital CEO Denise Soares dos Santos how the hospital provides a public good while still breaking even.2017-09-2700 min
SexTalkRape in South AfricaCliffCentral.com — Mia Malan from Bhekisisa, The Mail & Guardian health feature is the special guest. They've developed an app to help report rape in Diepsloot. The discussion expands into rape in South Africa, what the stats are, resources, police response, medical response and more.2017-01-1300 min