The National Health Insurance: Can Zweli Mkhize pull this off?
Can the health minister fix our health system and what will it take? Here’s what Mkhize’s character, views and his past...
Bosasa, Gavin Watson & the human cost of corruption
Bosasa bribed its way into contracts. Meet the four-year-old who paid the price.
Doing the ‘tramadol dance’: What this latest music craze says about Africa’s pill addiction
The illicit trade in this prescription pain killer has become the stuff of ballads and dance halls but its abuse is...
The WHO, the drug & women’s right to choose: The story behind dolutegravir
Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.
How this country is beating anti-vaxxers at their own game
One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe, yet vaccine coverage in the country is rising. Here’s how they do...
‘Most complex health crisis in history’: Congo struggles to contain Ebola
Political, security and cultural complications – not least a refusal to believe that Ebola exists – have thwarted efforts to overcome...
This is what it’s like waking up during surgery
General anaesthetic is supposed to make surgery painless. Now there’s evidence that one person in 20 may be awake when doctors think they’re under.
One she called the ‘minister of love’. The other? He was the ‘minister of...
Since the country’s rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking the HIV prevention pill are young women — despite high HIV rates.
Anyone can catch this drug-resistant bug. Surviving treatment is another story.
For years, catching this drug-resistant bacteria meant painful treatment that risked your hearing and mental health. Now, that could be changing.
This popular birth control shot is out of stock for the second year running....
Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.
He would ransom the pills for something more precious than profit: His wife’s life
When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.
Gaming medicine: Virtual reality is bringing real-time relief for chronic pain
Virtual reality isn’t just for video games anymore. It’s revolutionising medicine, including the way we manage pain.
A changing birth: What’s behind SA’s skyrocketing c-section rates?
Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?
Elsa and Nosipho: They both sell sex for a living, but in opposite worlds
Does sex work legislation have an impact on violence and the spread of HIV? We follow two women who operate in opposite worlds to find out.
Why science could finally be close to solving this birth control riddle
We could be just months away from knowing whether Depo-Provera use is linked to a higher risk of HIV infection in women.
Water in Ghana from pipe to packet: Is there a hidden cost to this...
In a country where pipes can stop short of reaching home, cheap sachets of water sold on the street could be an unlikely solution, but at what cost?