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A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city's slums.

With last year's provincial medical services data now available, Africa Check questions the Free State health's assertions of "significant progress".

More harm reduction policies and programmes will help reduce dangers of practices such as sharing dirty needles and ‘flashblooding’.

South Africa will soon get its own facility to make tablets to treat HIV and other ailments.

South Africa boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme but are provinces ready to take the lead?

Greater collaboration and sharing of information between stakeholders will lead to reductions in costs.

Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn children at greater risk than they think, writes Mia Malan.

Allegations of graft during his tenure as Gauteng health MEC aren’t new, says ANC Gauteng chief whip. In fact, they’re talked about regularly.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a "national state of disaster" after an outbreak of the new coronavirus. Today, ministers are expected to...

A procedure new to SA has allowed a young mother to give part of her liver to save her son.

The pandemic’s impact is long-term: the UN warns that it could lead to 13 million more child marriages over a decade.

Malnutrition contributes to almost half of all child deaths globally but receives 1% of foreign aid.

The M&G's new health journalism centre is ready to make its mark, scrutinise and inform.

A report notes that TB rates sky-rocketed in the 1990s fuelled by the HIV epidemic, and warns of a similar situation with diabetes-related TB.

Women in South Africa are waking up to the dangers posed by fetal alcohol syndrome.

Diabetic patients who aren't treated properly risk having the smallest cut lead to an amputated limb.