The KwaZulu-Natal health department says new measures have been put in place to tackle the high maternal and child mortality rate in the province.
A new single-dose drug is freely available after a bumpy start.
Rwanda, too, has succeeded in doing what this country has only been talking about for 18 years..
Will local facial hair campaigners be able to raise more than last year’s R7-million for men’s health issues?
As a result of an NGO in the Eastern Cape using incentives to encourage people to check their status, HIV testing has tripled in four villages.
Families of Wouter Basson’s victims want the contraversial doctor to ask for their forgiveness.
Family planning is not a luxury to everyone. Melinda Gates talks about why she has dedicated so much of her time to helping women plan their families.
The HPCSA will rule on Wouter Basson’s fate on December 18 after a five-year long inquiry into his actions during apartheid.
South Africa has the means and opportunity to keep its healthcare professionals.
Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.
The KwaZulu-Natal health department is set to take over Durban’s 104-year-old McCord Hospital by the end of January next year.
India has dispatched an unlikely hero to promote tuberculosis awareness and battle its stigma.
The Western Cape health department responds to the findings of a survey on access to healthcare among farmworkers during protests published last week.
Our children’s lives were lost due to the negligence of the Mpumalanga health system, say grieving mothers.
Four Messina Hospital staff members, who are also shop stewards for the union Nehawu, have been dismissed for inciting strike action against a doctor.
Speaking after the launch of the HIV, counselling and testing campaign, Aaron Motsoaledi has urged MPs to lead by example and get circumcised.
The hereditary bleeding disorder haemophilia could be a reason for deaths in some circumcision rituals and early detection could lessen fatalities.
An antioxidant found in tea brewed from the indigenous plant offers hope for new treatments.
A new therapy – a combination of drugs made from the artemisinin plant with older medicines – could transform the fight against malaria.
McCord Hospital in Durban will be sold to the government in a deal that will be concluded next year.
Unless the state’s plan to curb maternal deaths is wholly implemented, it won’t make a dent.
Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.
Nehawu will apply for an emergency interdict to stop McCord Hospital’s board from closing down the facility.
Hospitals and clinics are to be demolished and rebuilt to reboot the Eastern Cape’s "broken" health system.
Experts say the vast sum spent by Sylvia Lucas on unhealthy food is indicative of a big fat problem.
Nurses and doctors are ‘forced’ to treat non-residents, but such care is too often perilous.
Female condoms have sensualised sexual health thanks to the increased tactility of new materials.
Advocacy groups are due to march to the Eastern Cape’s health MEC as part of a campaign against a "crisis" in health care access in the province.
The situation in the Eastern Cape health department is a "full-blown catastrophe", writes Trudy Thomas.
A young pharmacist is driving a project to get Tanzania to make more of its own medicine.
Scandinavian expertise is helping to train top nurses in how to handle difficult pregnancies.
Half of South Africa’s 100 000 blind children could have been saved if they were treated earlier, shows a new report.