Imagine watching loved ones swept away, land and livestock destroyed, possessions lost within hours. For many, that’s reality ...

Imagine watching loved ones swept away, land and livestock destroyed, possessions lost within hours. For many, that’s reality ...

One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — will start to hand out a twice-a-year anti ...

South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the ...

Although taxpayer money now funds the bulk of South Africa’s HIV programme, getting to the point where we have the largest HIV treatment programme in the world, would not have been possible without ...

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Undocumented migrants and asylum seekers are being turned away from government clinics and hospitals by xenophobic groups, while the NHI Act says they’re only entitled to emergency care. HIV activists ...

When climate disasters strike Africa, the physical damage is obvious. But we’re only beginning to understand the psychological toll. Here’s why Western definitions of trauma can miss so much, and how ...

Mia Malan is the executive director and editor-in-chief of the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. Malan founded Bhekisisa in 2013 and has won over 20 African journalism awards. She’s a former ...

Obesity is surging in South Africa. What’s fuelling this epidemic and how does it contribute to diabetes and heart disease, ...