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 ...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released this week has some ideas on how to fight Big Tobacco’s influence machine — ...

South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding ...

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...

Fruit juice can have as much — or more — sugar than soda or energy drinks. But unlike those drinks, juices won’t come with a warning label under SA’s latest draft regulations for food labelling. We ...

Speed, scale and price would sway whether the drugmaker Gilead’s twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, will be able to markedly slow down the world — and SA’s new infections. To slow down new HIV ...

Gilead Sciences, the maker of a twice-a year anti-HIV injection, has approached South Africa’s medicine regulator to discuss how to get the shot registered locally as fast as possible in the country.

By the end of August, 1.65-million HIV-negative people in South Africa had used an anti-HIV pill at least once, making the country’s HIV prevention pill programme the world’s largest. By 2023, ...

Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. Twenty years ago, they were the smallest proportion. As people age, their chance for developing health ...

Lack of services A 2016 study in the Journal of Southern African Studies estimates that one in five pregnancies around the world ends in abortion. But “unsafe abortion is notoriously difficult to ...

The health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and TB projects in SA will end by September 30. The department has calculated that it needs R2.82-billion to plug the gap for ...

In today’s newsletter, Christina Pitt asks if stricter vaping laws will make more people smoke. Sign up for our newsletter now. Parliament’s portfolio committee on health has called for more research ...