Obesity is surging in South Africa. What’s fuelling this epidemic and how does it contribute to diabetes and heart disease, SA’s top killers?

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 ...

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

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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 ...

South Africa has close to 700 medical doctors who haven’t been able to find a job in the public sector since qualifying. The shrinking health budget, coupled with rising salaries and high medical ...

Gilead Sciences, the maker of a twice-a year anti-HIV injection, has approached South Africa’s medicine regulator to discuss how to get the shot registered locally as fast as possible in the country.

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 tells us why we need our educators to better understand how to work with disabilities.

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Richard van Zyl-Smit is a pulmonologist and professor of pulmonology in the department of medicine at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. He is also a principal investigator at UCT ...