Court orders government, police to block vigilantes from two clinics — and put up warnings at entrances

From porters to engineers, hospital staff navigate chronic underfunding and staffing shortages while maintaining world-class care at one of South Africa’s most storied medical institutions

When first introduced, strict rules on tobacco advertising in South Africa helped cut smoking from 32% to 24% over a decade. But 20 years later, adult smoking prevalence has stagnated at around 20%

Chinese government says this isn’t an attempt to capture the South African government but an initiative meant to help South Africans

It’s time to put an end to the discussions about the merits of electronic cigarettes as “safer” alternatives to tobacco and the fantastical need for a multitude of vape flavours, and make laws that protect children

While groups like Operation Dudula flood the zone with fear, confusion and misinformation around healthcare access for foreign nationals, that space has been easy to muddy, something only exacerbated by provisions in the National Health Insurance Act

Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand’s vaccines and infectious diseases analytics unit analysed small tissue samples of 1 586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg.  With the people in the area living in from informal settlements to structured houses, the cases […]

Pandemic preparedness is no longer being discussed solely in hospitals and laboratories, but has entered treasuries, debt offices and credit-rating meetings

From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients

The country’s medicines regulator Sahpra says it’s on track to announce its registration decision by the end of October

According to a survey, 85% of managers reported that their clinics faced staffing shortages, though only one in five blamed these on the US President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief cuts

As climate change intensifies, experts say our health and healthcare systems are going to suffer. But mental health often takes a back seat

The shot, called Lenacapavir, has a 100% success rate in preventing young women from getting HIV through sex