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At the UN General Assembly high-level meeting in New York next week, South Africa is expected to join other countries in signing a watered down declaration meant to curb diseases…
If the food labelling regulations under review are enacted, bold warning signs on packaging will let shoppers identify foods high in sugar, salt or unhealthy fats
A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny black box
With fewer people smoking cigarettes globally, the tobacco industry is using its well-honed tactics to increase sales of electronic devices like vapes and heated tobacco products
Under SA’s latest proposed food labelling regulations, 100% fruit juices won’t have to show a high sugar warning because their sugars are “naturally occurring”
As government clinics take on HIV patients who were previously treated by Pepfar-funded projects, the treatment of conditions like diabetes and heart disease will come under…
The Anova Health Institute, which received the lion’s share of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids funding in South Africa, had its support halted in February along with…
The city’s car-free day is going into its ninth year, far outlasting most initiatives like it around the world, including in South Africa
About 60 000 South Africans die in a year from diseases that are not caused by tuberculosis or HIV before they turn 70, and about a fifth of these are from diabetes
Researchers say part of the problem is the lack of coordination across the nation’s sprawling multi-agency system
Almost 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector. Rethinking how hospitals run can get this down. But healthcare workers say regulations stop them from…
Babies getting HIV from their infected mothers is rare in a cluster of 39 villages in the OR Tambo district
The Northern Cape could spend four times more per case than Gauteng, even though its health budget is far smaller.
South Africa spends too much money on medical malpractice lawsuits and wants to pursue new ways to settle cases out of court
People who live close to coal-fired power plants continue to fall ill from breathing in dirty air
Still, the South African Medical Association says government doctors in the country aren’t paid enough
South Africa has close to 700 medical doctors who haven’t been able to find a job in the public sector since qualifying
Graduates in the medicine, dental and rehabilitation therapy fields need to do community service to qualify but nearly 200 had not been placed by 12 December
The need for a new tuberculosis vaccine is as urgent as ever, and now a local pharmaceutical company is joining the race to find one
