“Infection” is a dirty word
HIV is hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Just a few months ago, HIV was in the news because the end of the more than 40-year pandemic was in sight. There is still no vaccine or cure for
Tag: Healthcare
A giant falls
How the US is destroying its legacy of leadership Once upon a time, America was great. It led the world in global health interventions, economy, trade, philanthropy, technology, space exploration and just about anything you can think of. Many also
Upholding the right to breastfeed
Hospital keeps exclusively breastfed baby away from her mother Hospital bans exclusively breastfed baby from her mother Wouldn’t those be shock-horror news headlines? Well, it’s true. The parents gave me permission to share this story and use their names because
The convenient face of corruption
When facts don’t get in the way of a story If you blinked in the past few weeks, you might have missed the complete clearing of any wrongdoing by the company, Fabkomp, which manufactures motorcycle sidecar clinics and ambulances. This
What a ride
Meet the inventor of the sidecar ambulance and clinic The road has been long and winding – from a north London workshop on a chilly morning into the imagination of a Saudi prince, on to the rural home of Nelson
The anatomy of a scapegoating
Motorbike sidecar ambulances and clinics are one of the best things to come out of the Eastern Cape. Yet certain quarters are trying their best to bludgeon the life out of this initiative that reaches into the heart of rural