Health Crisis

You might think of snakebite as a niche issue rather than a devastating one. But it is thought to kill somewhere between 80,000 and 140,000 people a year.

Country that ‘achieved the impossible’ in reducing deaths to zero now faces closure of key treatment centre

Climate action will help avert ‘the biggest threat to humanity’, say global health organisations

Having access to care is not a promise of health

The dearth of political will and the extractive practices of external actors can no longer be used as an excuse for inaction. We no longer have a choice; we need a radical change…

New data reveals a radical increase in the number of mines flouting water regulations

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi briefs the media on the current state of health in South Africa.

National health department deploys 200 officials to country’s beleaguered hospitals

Impoverished families will have some relief after a class action against 29 mining firms succeeds

Treasury and the national department of health will step in on behalf of the government in North West’s health department

‘This smog is a silent killer. In the years to come, the severe effects of this polluted air in our bodies will reveal its deadly effects’

Readers write in about the ANC’s degeneration, Zuma’s corruption and a call for Aaron Motsoaledi to transcend the rot.

The situation in the Eastern Cape health department is a "full-blown catastrophe", writes Trudy Thomas.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has decried the replacement of the healthcare system in Gauteng, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape with "tender-care".

The defunct health system and growing humanitarian crisis have had a devastating impact on children, and Unicef warns that child mortality will rise.