Today, this rural KZN community is about to make global headlines. Find out why.
Small town, big goals: Eshowe has become one of the first SA communities to put enough people on HIV treatment to reduce new infections in the area.
Could a National Health Insurance Fund be just months away?
The time for talk is over, said Zweli Mkhize in his first budget speech as health minister. But if you thought...
The juice and injustice in your fruit: ‘I had to pick enough fruit to...
Why righting human rights abuses against migrant workers starts with recognising the intersection of gender, labour & exploitation.
Conflict and insecurity driving spread of diseases like Ebola, WHO chief warns
Deadly outbreak is ‘global wake-up call’, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.
The head...
Fiber, flatulence & fortified foods: This is your body on veganism
From Badu to Beyonce: Some of your favourite celebs have toyed with it but is going vegan right for you?
New smoke signals: Is Big Tobacco using influencers to illegally punt new products?
Could companies’ wooing of social media influencers be just a clever ploy to get around the country’s tobacco advertising ban?
Hospitals close in Mpumalanga as doctors and nurses fear for their safety
Health workers in the province demand security cameras and personal panic buttons at hospitals because of crime and attacks on nurses and doctors.
Could your birth control increase your risk of HIV? Science finally has an answer.
But new science doesn't change the fact that women still have too few options when it comes to contraception.
Bathabile Dlamini & the case of SA’s disappearing rape crisis services
Under Dlamini's time as minister of social development, centres lost funding for counselling services. Now, no one can say what the future holds.
Would you know if the medicine you’re taking is fake?
Armed with blockchain and artificial intelligence, health workers and campaigners are battling the bogus business that kills thousands.
Amnesty International Zimbabwe closes amid allegations of fraud
Police are investigating suspected misconduct involving millions of dollars of funds from donors.
Shot-caller, calculated, master of survival. SA, meet your new health minister.
Will Ramaphosa’s new health minister wield enough power to bring recalcitrant MECs to heel?
How did an otherwise healthy man with a broken leg end up dead in...
The bizarre case from Durban is at least the second such case nationally in the last three years.
Pregnant? Not on medical aid? You might be footing the bill to bring home...
Women may be paying the price for decades’ old concessions to the medical aid industry.
Whatever happened to the doctors & nurses involved in the #LifeEsidimeni tragedy?
These health workers presided over one of the deadliest tragedies since the dawn of democracy. Find out why they can still practice.
Men, the HIV prevention pill just got easier. Get the ‘2-1-1’ on what to...
Men who have sex with men can now safely use the HIV prevention pill before and after sex, instead of every day.