South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding ...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released this week has some ideas on how to fight Big Tobacco’s influence machine — ...

Fruit juice can have as much — or more — sugar than soda or energy drinks. But unlike those drinks, juices won’t come with a warning label under SA’s latest draft regulations for food labelling. We ...

Professor Renata Schoeman is a Cape Town-based psychiatrist and the co-author of South Africa’s <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ADHD management guidelines and chairs the <a href=" ...

The Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria says it will fund the roll-out of the twice-yearly anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, for poorer countries, including South Africa, with or without the help of the US ...

‘Thank you for partnering with USAID and God Bless America’ USAID-funded district health projects, supported outside of Pepfar, but with other US government funds administered by USAID, have also been ...

Data from the latest District Health Barometer show that close to 365 teenagers give birth in South Africa every day. Ten of those daily teen births are to girls younger than 15. Experts say the ...

Pepi Nana stirs, and sits up in bed. “Tiddle toddle, tiddle toddle,” she says, flapping her arms, and blinking a pair of enormous round eyes. She walks over to the desk, sits down, and, using the ...

It was day 25 and Xhobiso Pungulwa* (18) slowly pushed himself up in his bed. He asked a nurse for a plastic Ziploc bag, the transparent type used to transport laboratory specimens. He had been in ...

A study of 31 countries found that South Africa made up a third of all over-the- counter codeine sales between 2013 and 2019. Codeine is found in mild painkillers and cough syrups, and is sometimes ...

The ANC has kept the health minister portfolio in the government of national unity (GNU) with Aaron Motsoaledi, who also headed the department from 2009 to 2019, becoming South Africa’s new health ...

Black skin has a natural sun protection barrier equal to sunscreen of 13.4 because it contains more melanin (the stuff that gives your skin its colour). White skin has only a quarter of that ...