The Tshiamiso Trust has begun paying out workers who contracted silicosis and TB in South Africa’s gold mines, but the amounts are paltry against what they have lost to poor health over the years.
Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines
Strategic investments in health care for all are needed to ensure safe births, treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and children are vaccinated
Pandemic disrupts the supply of external condoms — and inner ones are unknown and in short supply
More men than women have tuberculosis and 82% are in the 15 to 24 age group
While data is still trickling in on how much the pandemic affects health systems, there are far-reaching consequences for people living with HIV and tuberculosis.
It is imperative that we train healthcare workers and participate in continent-wide collaboration
In Africa, more people will die as a result of what we are doing to prevent Covid-19 than will be saved by doing it
Scientists are seeking to manufacture key medications in South Africa, saving on costs and shoring up decreased supplies
Framing coronavirus as a security threat is not the only possible approach
We need to resist the patriarchy, racism, sexism and capitalist greed that is still prevalent on the globe
According to UN figures, some 3 400 migrants and refugees remain detained in Tripoli, which has seen a surge in fighting since early April
South African scientists need to develop health technologies that respond to our society’s most pressing needs
One in four people carry this potentially deadly bug? Now a new shorter treatment can prevent it from making you sick.
It is not just the person who drinks alcohol in excess who is harmed; the family suffers too
South Africa boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme but are provinces ready to take the lead?
#TrackingTheNSP: Ahead of World Aids Day, hear just how far provinces have come putting the national plan into practice.
That tot or two might be putting you at risk for…an infectious disease? Find out what you need to know.
When the US went to bat for Big Pharma in the fight against this killer disease, South Africa wasn’t having any of it. Here’s what happened next.
Scroll down to read the latest trial results as part of our live blog from the UN’s recent high level meeting on TB
Ramaphosa and Motsoaledi are expected to draw high praise at a UN meeting this week. Find out why.
Heads of state discussed one of the world’s biggest killers in New York this week — and it was Aaron Motsoaledi who got them together.
A play about coming to terms with living with serious illness is an indictment of society
Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez takes you inside SA’s national HIV and TB plan in just two minutes.
It’s been a steep learning curve for districts that sometimes don’t have the know-how — or the data — to write and track local plans.
SA has a chance to lead the world in realising Madiba’s dream this September as the United Nations convenes its first high level meeting on TB.
When TB strikes, the fight to live can come at the cost of a way of life for the country’s nomads. This could help ease the pain.
It’s World TB Day. Here’s why human rights and TB responses go hand in hand.
How community health workers and data can help South Africa get more TB patients on treatment.
The loss of one of SA’s most longstanding HIV activists comes when politics and dwindling resources are pitting stalwarts against each other.
Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?
The new strategy is the first in a decade that does not advocate for the decriminalisation of sex work.