A growing body of evidence suggests that unpredictable weather linked to climate change has the potential to injure people’s minds, leading to an increase in the development of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety
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
From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients
Ndiviwe Mphothulo, a medical doctor and president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, is trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse South Africa’s HIV programmes
Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix of our healthcare system
When Zane Wilson faced crippling panic attacks, she struggled to find help. So she decided to do something about it
The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem
Twenty-eight years after the first South African students left for Cuba to study medicine, an increasing number are in senior leadership positions in healthcare
After eight years at the helm of the University of Cape Town’s department of medicine, Ntusi says it is ‘time for somebody else to come and lead’
Meet the doctor who, for 25 years, has worked tirelessly to transform the trauma unit at Bara, the largest hospital in Africa