South Africa needs to get more than 550 000 HIV-positive men on antiretrovirals before the end of next year to help the ...

What’s a Pelebox and can it make medicine collection in the public health sector easy enough for people to fetch their meds ...

MomConnect, a health department mobile app, which close to 5-million moms who rely on public health services have used, turns ...

The government is facing close to R78-billion in medical negligence claims, which is nearly 80% of the budget used to treat ...

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A large chunk of our reporting focuses on HIV. Since the launch of Bhekisisa in 2013, we’ve covered HIV in-depth — from the impact of the virus on former president Nelson Mandela’s family to the ...

Government clinics often run out of contraceptive medicines, which has been the case since 2015. The latest Stop Stockouts and Ritshidze report shows that... August has been an incredible month for ...

In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of ...