It’s time to put an end to the discussions about the merits of electronic cigarettes as “safer” alternatives to tobacco and the fantastical need for a multitude of vape flavours, and make laws that protect children
While groups like Operation Dudula flood the zone with fear, confusion and misinformation around healthcare access for foreign nationals, that space has been easy to muddy, something only exacerbated by provisions in the National Health Insurance Act
Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand’s vaccines and infectious diseases analytics unit analysed small tissue samples of 1 586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. With the people in the area living in from informal settlements to structured houses, the cases […]
Pandemic preparedness is no longer being discussed solely in hospitals and laboratories, but has entered treasuries, debt offices and credit-rating meetings
Calls mount for African solutions to respond to the vaccine cuts and the need for a broad system-wide approach to vaccine production in Africa, and for innovative financing for sustainable health systems
From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients
The country’s medicines regulator Sahpra says it’s on track to announce its registration decision by the end of October
According to a survey, 85% of managers reported that their clinics faced staffing shortages, though only one in five blamed these on the US President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief cuts
As climate change intensifies, experts say our health and healthcare systems are going to suffer. But mental health often takes a back seat
The shot, called Lenacapavir, has a 100% success rate in preventing young women from getting HIV through sex
An AI pal could help young people learn about medication to stop them from getting infected
The SIU’s revelations this week of sprawling corruption at the hospital bring cold comfort to one grieving mother
The pilot project will inform extending a handbook to UN member states
Hetero and Dr Reddy’s will be funded by the Gates Foundation and Unitaid to produce and sell the twice-a-year anti-HIV shot around R692 per person a year
While the scars left by the April 2022 flash floods aren’t obvious to visitors to Inanda, the township just northwest of Durban, the collective and individual trauma, often left unspoken, continues to linger
Pregnant employees and new mothers instead claim 60% of their salary from UIF for up to four months maternity leave
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 such diabetes, cancer and heart disease around the world
The health department hopes to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection lenacapavir available soon and to be buying generics by 2027
When a group of learners headed out with their cameras to document infectious disease in the time of climate change, many came back with what they see every day — dangerous, dirty, stagnant pools of water
Ndiviwe Mphothulo, a medical doctor and president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, is trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse South Africa’s HIV programmes
Claims of poor standards at South Africa’s government health facilities are often bandied about — and get hackles raised when the National Health Insurance is mentioned, to boot
Fifty 50 teenage girls and young women from communities with high rates of HIV, early pregnancy and school drop-out rates spoke about what’s stressing them out, and how they are keeping it together
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
The health department has R622 million extra to prop up South Africa’s HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid cuts, but it’s only about a fifth of the total gap
Antimicrobial resistance threatens global health and economic stability. Urgent investment in surveillance, innovation and stewardship is critical to containment
The $400 million the United States congress removed from a list of funding programmes the Trump administration wants to cut doesn’t cancel the cuts to HIV and TB programmes made in February
Women and young people don’t need foreign experts to tell them what their communities need; they need resources and support to implement locally developed and relevant solutions
Medical school coursework includes teaching Western medicine’s standard ethical principle including discussions about patients’ rights, but what is not talked about is what death and dying can feel like for the patient, their loved ones or the healthcare provider
The country isn’t getting extra money from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria; it has to use cash from a grant it has already been awarded and was cut by 16% in June
Lonely and isolated people are not just experiencing emotional states — these can be lethal
Misinformation fuelled by the US health secretary is creating a dangerous – and growing – lack of trust in vaccines
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