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 ...

Compromise isn’t a word favoured by the Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, when it comes to rolling out universal healthcare, despite objections from some of the ANC’s coalition partners. Mia Malan ...

Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool that makes child abandonment and trafficking easy, or a lifesaver for mothers ...

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 ...

Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes rise too, ...

Ketamine has been used for decades as an anaesthetic drug. But in the past few years, more and more psychiatrists have been using it for hard-to-treat depression; in SA, that’s when at least two ...

Professor Renata Schoeman is a Cape Town-based psychiatrist and the co-author of South Africa’s <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ADHD management guidelines and chairs the <a href=" ...

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

The 3 022 US government data capturers in South Africa that the US government funded — 1 601 lost their jobs in February and another 1 421 are likely to be unemployed by September — account for about ...

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 ...

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 ...

The national health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) projects in South Africa will end by September 30. The department has calculated that it needs ...