Public Health
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Editorial: We’re a sick society
Hospitals in the Free State are on the verge of collapse as criminal syndicates strip plumbing bare for scrap copper, cutting off critical water supply and leaving vulnerable…
Criminals target Free State hospitals
Free State healthcare facilities are under siege as criminal syndicates repeatedly strip hospitals of copper pipes, taps, and toilet flush mechanisms, costing millions of rands…
Crackdown on illegal weight loss drugs
Pharmaceutical industry leaders and South African regulators have demanded urgent crackdowns, seizures, and arrests to curb the dangerous open sale of unregistered weight loss…
R73K relocation row lands in court
Caprisa and its former communications head, Sinenhlanhla Jimoh, are embroiled in a Labour Court dispute over more than R73,000 in unpaid relocation expenses.
Psychology congress to tackle GBVF
As outrage over femicide mounts, the Psychological Society of South Africa convenes in Ekurhuleni to explore evidence-based, psychological approaches to ending gender-based…
LEN won’t sell itself: 6 lessons from HIV prevention pills
Lenacapavir offers game-changing, twice-yearly protection against HIV, but South Africa's experience with prevention pills proves an effective medicine won't sell itself. Here…
Seafood’s smelly supply chain
A global investigation reveals the hidden human and environmental toll of the fishmeal boom, where coastal communities in West Africa bear the brunt of toxic air pollution and…
Who Cares for the Carers? Malnutrition and its Mental Health Toll
As severe acute malnutrition affects hundreds of thousands of children in northern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders is addressing an overlooked crisis: the severe emotional and…
The community of Kabwe, Zambia, still awaits justice
Decades after the closure of the Broken Hill Mine, the people of Kabwe, Zambia, are still seeking justice and remediation from Anglo American as toxic lead contamination…
Would homegrown LEN cost more? Why SA should still make the HIV prevention jab
South Africa aims to manufacture the revolutionary six-monthly HIV prevention injection lenacapavir locally. Experts weigh the need for rapid, affordable access against building…
Mental healthcare needs our support
Medical doctor and advocate Dr Samke Ngcobo shares how combining clinical expertise with lived experience is essential to reforming mental healthcare systems and ending stigma.
Raslouw Private Hospital Achieves Landmark Medical Milestone with First Successful Living Donor Liver Transplants
Raslouw Private Hospital has marked a major medical milestone by successfully performing its first two living donor liver transplantations in Centurion.
EU pesticide rule changes raise concerns for South Africa
Scientists warn that proposed rollbacks in EU pesticide regulations could have far-reaching effects, weakening international safety standards and impacting South Africa as it…
For 20 years, Kwanele Asante told health systems to listen to patients. Then the UN gave her the mic
South African lawyer and bioethicist Kwanele Asante transformed her personal health challenges with breast cancer and chronic illness into decades of fierce advocacy for people…
Long Before the Classroom, Learning Has Already Begun
Breastfeeding is far more than just a nutrition practice; it serves as one of a baby's earliest developmental building blocks, laying vital foundations for learning, trust, and…