South Africa’s stop-start roll-out is not the only reason herd immunity is unrealistic for 2021. A constrained vaccine supply and new variants also play a role
This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets from 2018 to 2020. It’s also a tribute to the faceless, nameless women whose stories remain untold.
Eighty thousand Johnson & Johnson jabs will arrive in South Africa on Tuesday and be taken to 16 sites where healthcare workers will be vaccinated
We spoke to experts, looked at the data and relistened to the health department’s briefings to break down the revised roll-out plan
The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and James Oatway visited George Mukhari academic hospital to document the second-wave realities experienced by doctors and nurses
The HIV prevention tablet is now available in South Africa but popping a pill every day to stay HIV-negative may not be for everyone
Could companies’ wooing of social media influencers be just a clever ploy to get around the country’s tobacco advertising ban?
When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they’re seven times less likely to die, says one of the world’s largest studies.
Health workers in Mpumalanga fear for their lives because of crime and unsafe buildings
For 25 years, scientists have wondered whether the Depo-Provera could increase people’s risk of contracting HIV. Today, we find out if it does.