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 ...

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 today’s newsletter, Anna-Maria van Niekerk and Linda Pretorius look into South Africa’s high rates of teen pregnancy. Sign up today. December holidays started badly for Ainsley Robinson.* At 14, ...

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 ...

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In today’s newsletter, Christina Pitt takes a look at the Tobacco Bill. Sign up today. It seems South Africa’s long-awaited new anti-tobacco legislation is set to go nowhere slowly — again. On ...

This is a developing story. We update the copy, map, timeline and press releases each time the health department announces new cases. South Africa is one of 14 countries that will be financially ...

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