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Khwezi speaks: ‘I did not do it to win. I was just fighting for...
In a new book, Redi Tlhabi reveals the woman behind the pseudonym and the price she paid for pursuing justice after accusing Jacob Zuma of rape.
South Africa is placed on alert for ‘superbug’ as drug-resistant yeast infections rise globally
Health experts warn of a potentially fatal fungal infection that is said to be spreading in hospitals.
Your medical aid is going to change. Read Aaron Motsoaledi’s #NHI speech
New legislation will abolish co-payments and may look to go after medical aid scheme reserves.
Measles threat puts Ebola to shame
The disease is outfoxing prevention efforts, thanks in part to vaccination myths.
Waste not, want not: Kenya turns sewage into cleaner, longer-burning fuel
Is Kenya, currently plagued by a cholera outbreak, about to show the world the energy wealth hidden in human waste?
Gauteng health department unable to trace 20 #LifeEsidimeni patients
Three years later, almost a dozen patients are still missing.
A jab controls sandfly bite killer fever, but not in South Sudan
Early diagnosis, a simple test, vector curbs and a new medicine is effective in many areas, but South Sudan can't rely on this treatment.
Gold industry’s appeal in miners’ silicosis class action is shameful
Widows and children stand to inherit damage claims from the mining industry, but their decision to appeal doesn't bode well.
This costs just cents and could prevent half-a-million children from going blind
The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.
To gather or not to gather? How to better promote staying safe during the...
The end of the year is expected to see a lot of people heading home for the holidays, along with a rise of COVID-19 cases. Here’s why the solution for curbing the spread of this coronavirus could lie in harm reduction policies.
‘I saw the world through the blurry lens of an oxygen tent’
With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?
Life’s precipice puts addiction into perspective
Three drug addicts tell their stories of devastation, desperation and, finally, the long road to recovery.
How far is South Africa in the fight against HIV and TB? Find out.
South Africa boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme but are provinces ready to take the lead?
Seizures of illicit chloroquine skyrocket during COVID-19 outbreak — Interpol
With substandard medicines already in wide circulation, fears are growing that coronavirus could create a lethal ‘parallel crisis’.When Joana Opoku-Darko’s daughter Anna was 18...
It’s time to stop treating sexual violence as just coincidental to HIV infections
A national policy on sexual assault has been in draft form for years. Now, the country now has the chance to put survivors of sexual violence first.
[ICYMI] Ministers brief public on South Africa’s coronavirus outbreak response
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a "national state of disaster" after an outbreak of the new coronavirus. Today, ministers are expected to...