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In July, Rudo Mathivha handed in her notice at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, ending a rightly celebrated 25-year stint as head of the intensive care unit. It was after a truly terrible year. Her story underscores the extent to which quality healthcare for the country’s most vulnerable people remains at the mercy of the indifferent and the corrupt.

New research may have finally answered an old question.

Are e-cigarettes dangerous? Are they safer for you than smoking? The World Health Organisation lays out what you need to know about your favourite vapes.

Full track and traceability of COVID jabs won’t happen during South Africa’s vaccine roll-out, as the health department has not yet adopted the “overarching” system that would make this possible.

The discovery of horse in meat products sparked outrage across Europe and a new Stellenbosch University report has revealed similar findings in SA.

What goes into the scientific hamburger of a COVID vaccine? A lot of trust.

Did you know? Good care is out there in public and private hospitals, but check your medical aid

Millions of South Africans in their 20s have applied for the COVID-19 relief grant. But at R350 a month, this is not enough to cover a person’s basic food requirements — and is an indicator of the increasing dependency of young adults on grants.

The murder of an Mpumalanga doctor on duty has exposed the lax security at public hospitals.

We ask the infectious diseases specialist Anthony Fauci 18 questions about the COVID pandemic: from what works to counter vaccine hesitancy to whether life will even return to the normal we knew before COVID-19.

The search for an anti-HIV microbicide continues, after a new trial has refuted the results of a previous study that found one to be effective.

The stigma that obese and overweight people face is similar to that seen in the early days of the HIV epidemic, when people used to say that it was someone’s own fault for getting infected, says Francois Venter, an HIV doctor and director of the Ezintsha research centre at the University of the Witwatersrand.

British American Tobacco in South Africa says 200 of its workers will be out of a job soon, but public health researchers argue they’re using misleading figures to back the retrenchments.

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...

The case has already contributed to improved jurisprudence on socioeconomic rights in Uganda

Bhekisisa's new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.