Outreach campaigns often lean heavily on extractions, the quickest and most visible form of care. 2022/23 DHIS data shows over 300,000 extractions performed in the Eastern Cape. In contrast, fewer ...

In countries where diabetes care tools are widely available, innovation transforms lives and makes care accessible to all.

A groundbreaking study led by South African and Indonesian researchers will investigate if people with asymptomatic TB can still transmit the disease.

“We had to retrench more than a hundred people and are left with a quarter of the community monitors to do the work,” says Anele Yawa, the general secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), ...

A woman in advanced labour was allegedly asked to walk to the labour ward, resulting in her baby being delivered in the corridor of addington hospital.

Maphuti Masalesa (78) from Tshikwarani, a village in Limpopo’s Makhado municipality, has been without electricity for almost three years after his connection cable was stolen. He claims Eskom demanded ...

Mpho did leave the clinic as she was instructed, but she never made it back home. She collapsed and died in the street, not far from the clinic. Her body was found by neighbours who alerted her family ...

The rainwater that collects in these holes has become a playground for children from nearby communities who swim in these pits.

South Africa’s Health Product Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has approved the use of the twice-yearly HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir. In a statement released on 27 October, the regulatory body said ...