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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jessica Pitchford Jessica Pitchford is Bhekisisa 's TV and multimedia editor. She's been a journalist since the early nineties and has reported on some pivotal events in South Africa’s political ...

Compromise isn’t a word favoured by the Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, when it comes to rolling out universal healthcare, despite objections from some of the ANC’s coalition partners. Mia Malan ...

The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism is an independent media organisation that specialises in narrative, solutions journalism focusing on health and social justice issues across Africa. Our ...

This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets between 2018 and 2020. It’s also a tribute to those who didn’t – the faceless, nameless women whose stories will remain untold. This ...

Based on the best international studies, here are three ways we can reduce heavy drinking: Limit the advertising and promotion of alcohol, which influences young people to drink heavily at a time when ...

South Africa has eight doctors for every 10 000 people. Less than half the global average. But the shortages are more concentrated in the public sector than in private healthcare and even worse in ...

Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool that makes child abandonment and trafficking easy, or a lifesaver for mothers ...