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Health features and news from across Africa by Bhekisisa, the Mail & Guardian's health journalism centre.
Ketamine has been used for decades as an anaesthetic drug, but in the past few years, more and more psychiatrists have been using it for hard-to-treat depression
Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand have gathered data from the Diepkloof Forensic Pathology Service in Soweto to better understand why so many women turn to…
Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining pollution
This is despite vacancy rates of 5% to 22% in government clinics and hospitals
In 25 years, new infections have dropped from about 1 463 each day to about 370, but HIV ‘is still an issue’, experts say
In the past five years, none of the targets political leaders adopted after the previous round of high-level discussions on the fight against tuberculosis at the United Nations…
Government hospitals face shortages of specialist doctors. To make it worse, not all of them are showing up to work
The US government has appointed the first African head of its Aids fund, Pepfar. John Nkengasong, a Cameroonian virologist
Teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 will be able to register to receive their Covid-19 jab from 20 October. This group will be given only one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, for…
Vaccination campaigns that promote how having the Covid-19 vaccination will benefit individuals rather than society are more effective to convince people who are neutral or…
South Africa’s vaccine roll-out is happening – slowly. Only 3% of eligible adults have been fully vaccinated. KwaZulu-Natal is leading the pack with the Eastern Cape hot on its…
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
