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You can’t transmit HIV if you take ARVs correctly and are virally suppressed
Researchers once again confirmed: It’s impossible for HIV-positive people on treatment to transmit the virus through sex — this time among gay men.
Mahlangu, Hlongwa elected to top Gauteng ANC body
The pair continues to survive politically despite being implicated in deadly mismanagement and graft during their tenures as Gauteng health MECs.
Are strong-armed tactics by Big Pharma behind the country’s birth control shortage?
An international drug maker may have intentionally muscled out local competition to win the bulk of a national birth control tender.
SA slashes new HIV cases by almost half
The country’s investments in HIV treatment and prevention are paying off, leading to huge reductions in new infections
Read: The preliminary findings of South Africa’s latest HIV household survey
More than four-million people in the country are now on antiretroviral treatment.
Gauteng health department unable to trace 20 #LifeEsidimeni patients
Three years later, almost a dozen patients are still missing.
Think you’re going to opt out of the #NHI when it comes? Think again.
In June, the health minister released the long-awaited National Health Insurance Bill. What does it mean to you and your medical aid? We tell you.
Read: The Competition Commission’s findings on the private healthcare sector
South Africa's first inquiry into the private healthcare market blew the lid off where your medical aid premiums are really going.
Too much of a good thing: SA’s epidemic of over-treatment is paying off for...
Is a lack of competition fuelling unnecessary care at your expense?
Why rape counselling needs to hit the road and other ways to make services...
When people can't get to healthcare, healthcare needs get to them.
Will the National Health Insurance actually work?
Read what Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has up his sleeve for your medical aid.
At a glance: What the National Health Insurance means for you & your pocket
Two Bills, almost 200 pages may change healthcare forever in SA. Haven't read them? We did the heavy lifting so you don't have to.
Read Brian Hlongwa’s response to the SIU report
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.
Hlongwa responds to SIU report: ‘I arranged to hand myself over to the Hawks’
The chief whip says recent media reports were first to alert him that the SIU had completed its investigation into alleged corruption under his watch.
Read the Medical Scheme Amendments Bill
Find out what the big changes government may have in store for medical aids.
Five things the Gauteng health department spent your money on – SIU
Spa treatments, fancy homes and paperwork — and the list goes on.