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The major backer of the lenacapavir roll-out is assuring nervous researchers that they will keep their part of funding promises. It’s a good economic investment, says the Fund’s Peter Sands, into a game-changing drug that could save millions of lives.

In the developed world up to 5% of patients with chronic kidney disease are children. But statistics are harder to come by in the developing world.

The National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union has claimed that an interim court interdict has been granted, despite others rejecting this.

The residents of a Nigerian village had no health services, save for traditional methods, to treat those with a fever and a rash.

Advocacy groups are due to march to the Eastern Cape's health MEC as part of a campaign against a "crisis" in health care access in the province.

Rekindling the sexual fire of a once passionate marriage has sparked a deeper emotional link.

How much money would HIV and other health programmes in South Africa stand to lose because of US President Donald Trump’s order to freeze foreign funding? We work it out — even though official dashboards and websites where these figures used to be went dark last week.

Zane Wilson founded the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag) in 1994, in the midst of her own debilitating struggle with panic disorder. Thirty years later, the group is the largest and most impactful mental health organisation in South Africa. Bhekisisa’s Sean Christie found Wilson and several of Sadag’s staff in a proud and reflective mood.

Eighty thousand Johnson & Johnson jabs will touch down at OR Tambo International Airport today and be distributed to 16 sites across the country where healthcare workers will be vaccinated. Find out more.

A woman’s chance of being killed in the Eastern Cape is almost double what it is in the country as a whole and about half as likely in Limpopo as in the rest of South Africa, results from the South African Medical Research Council’s fourth survey on femicide, reveal.

The country’s child grant is failing to deliver social justice because it is doing more than what it is meant to do, says research.

Since July last year, a small revolution has been taking place at Mays Chemist in Melville, Johannesburg — and one that could make a real difference to HIV prevention in South Africa. But because of a drawn-out court case, a valuable opportunity to slow down new HIV infections in the country may be lost, researchers say.

The state has pulled its funding of studies on the disease, retarding progress on a cure.

You're a public health official and want to get lifesaving information to the public. But how? Here's why experts should be on Twitter.

There is a big move afoot to alert SADC members to the concessions on intellectual property rights that they can take advantage of.

At least in one in every five public health facilities in the country has run out of HIV and/or TB drugs in the last two months, says a report.