SA gets R520 million to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab – but there’s a snag

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

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

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”

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

Last month, the health minister said more than half a million previously diagnosed people with HIV have been started on treatment since the end of February

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder affects 5% to 7% of schoolgoing children, but doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, so don’t get too much medication regularly

The association argued that the Bill is not fiscally feasible and would have adverse effects on the economy and healthcare system

With the 12 specialised key population clinics in South Africa funded by the US government, and now shuttered, getting treatment at government clinics has been difficult, if not impossible

More than a quarter of children under the age of five in the country are chronically malnourished

The study highlights the need for more research to focus on African demographics on the continent to personalise treatments

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 pressure

Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation