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This silent killer stalks expecting mothers around the world and is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in South Africa
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.
Bhekisisa’s latest policy dialogue takes a deep dive into one of the biggest challenges facing SA’s HIV response at the 9th Aids conference.
Public health officials and journalists are like two peas in a pot — they need each other.
Find out which issues have been prioritised after the Presidential Health Summit.
Today, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will report on the outcomes of the Presidential Health Summit held in October last year.
Interested in health and social justice reporting and willing to put in the hours to do it? This internship might be for you.
Medical doctors and traditional healers often struggle to trust each other. But in this rural KZN community they learned how to work together.
South Africa boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme but are provinces ready to take the lead?
"Twenty-thousand people were killed in the past year. The majority of killers and victims are men," Ramaphosa says at summit.
#TrackingTheNSP: Ahead of World Aids Day, hear just how far provinces have come putting the national plan into practice.
After two days of deliberations on the National Health Insurance, delegates are expected to summarise findings and present the way forward.
Read what Deputy President David Mabuza had to say about primary health care and the NHI in his Presidential Health Summit speech.
Motsoaledi is expected to join experts, academics and business to discuss how NHI will be financed and the private sector’s involvement.
How could a baby get an organ from a person living with HIV and not automatically contract the virus? The experts weigh in.
Watch live as the University of the Witwatersrand announces this groundbreaking liver transplant.
But inspectors uncover counterfeit bottled water and spices.
We teamed up with readers and translators to create some of the first graphics ever on abortion in all South Africa’s official languages.
The strategy aims to, for instance, slash new HIV infections by more than 60%.
The Eastern Cape’s Tower Hospital was billed as the country’s next "Life Esidimeni".
