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MANGO-OMC 4 Jun 2019

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Vector control targeting the larval phase of the mosquito’s life cycle can be successful. Shutterstock

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Bonitas 29 May 2019

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The bushes surrounding the clinic in Buntingville are so overgrown that the clinic looks disused. But it is used, and it’s badly under-resourced. Photo: Yamkela Ntshongwana

Nurses in village clinic buy medical essentials with their own money

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With you from start to finish - with a 'bus' along the way

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Image source: Getty/Gallo

UCT spearheads new technologies for life-saving cancer treatment

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Artist impression of neurons communicating in the brain.
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Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge on his way to wining the London Marathon in April 2019. EPA-EFE/Facundo Arrizabalaga

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Former head of the Gauteng department of health Barney Selebano (pictured) may lose his license to practise medicine after an inqury into his involvement in the Life Esidimeni deaths in September. (Joyrene Kramer, Section27)

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Are natural and healthy choices keeping away the flu?

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Professor Soraya Bardien, Dr Handri Walters, Professor Leslie Swartz, Professor Jonathan Jansen and Professor Jimmy Volmink

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4 new WHO goodwill ambassadors appointed

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