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The once-every-six-month HIV prevention injection, lenacapavir — in short known as LEN — holds the promise to help end Aids in Africa. South Africa started to roll out the jab on 5 June 2026. We’ve ...

In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of ...

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Violent men don’t simply wake up violent one day. Childhood abuse, violence at home, poverty and harmful ideas about masculinity can pile up over years — although most boys who experience these things ...

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