The South African government says it could fill the potential gap in the number of doses it will need of the twice-yearly HIV ...

Twenty-five years ago, South Africans battled for ARVs to keep people alive. Now the focus has shifted to medicines that can prevent HIV altogether. Health Beat looks at Aids at 44 — and how the story ...

Although a new draft Tobacco Bill for South Africa was published in 2018 to get the country’s nicotine habit under control, ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone explains that while the Tobacco Control Bill sits in Parliament, we’ve normalised nicotine addiction by allowing our kids to vape. Sign up for our newsletter ...

Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand analysed small tissue samples of 1 586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto. Results show ...

Undocumented migrants and asylum seekers are being turned away from government clinics and hospitals by xenophobic groups, while the NHI Act says they’re only entitled to emergency care. HIV activists ...

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As climate change intensifies, a toxic legacy grows more dangerous in Soweto. Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as more floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining ...

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 ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone tells us why we need our educators to better understand how to work with disabilities.

On Saturday, the US state department issued details of who qualifies for a limited waiver during the Trump administration’s 90-day pause of foreign aid. The freeze has resulted in the temporary close ...

WINDING ROAD: A community health worker delivers ARVs to a patient’s home in the Xhora Mouth Administrative Area, Eastern Cape.