Nothing is immune from the stain of colonialism and its associated phenomena of racism. This includes the practice of medicine. Whether one is considering the inequality of medical care between the ...

A year and nine months after the World Health Organization officially declared coronavirus a pandemic, South Africans still have a concerning, lingering distrust for all three vaccines available to ...

Colonies of nations were identified and established to claim territory abroad. At best, such claims were for national expansion, but at worst, the real goal of such “colonialism” was to usurp valuable ...

EARLY last year, a French doctor caused controversy when he proposed that vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic be tried on Africans because they lack masks and other personal protective equipment. After ...

Much has been made of the wealth transfer from India to Britain during colonial rule. Less discussed is the underinvestment in the health of the population ...

Daniela Pila spent an hour after school one day scrubbing her brown skin with a bar of papaya soap, hoping it would turn white. She was 12 and had never really cared much about the color of her skin.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Africa turned away shipments of Covid-19 vaccines, fearing that insufficient demand could lead to their stockpile spoiling, ...

South Africa turned away shipments of Covid-19 vaccines, fearing that insufficient demand could lead to their stockpile spoiling, reports say. A year and nine months after the World Health ...