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

The health scheme is scheduled to be functioning by 2025 but the precise costs are still not known.

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

Doctors from the Soweto hospital have approached the Mail & Guardian in a last-resort effort to get the equipment, supplies and services they need.

Health MEC Bandile Masuku tables his inaugural budget before the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. In the speech, areas such as health facility upgrades and security...

Mothers battling depression may need help forming the early crucial bonds that will affect children's relationships throughout their lives.

The AG's report has found that the Council for Medical Schemes failed to comply with laws governing the financial management of public entities.

The philanthropic duo give their two cents or rather $200-million on how to deal with the world's inequalities.

With the help of new technologies, global health organisations aim to eliminate malaria in Africa in the next 15 years.

A Medecins Sans Frontieres project in Cape Town finds that sick people prefer being treated at facilities closer to home rather than in hospitals.

The epidemic could end in 15 years if “fast-track targets” are accelerated in the next six years – if not, infection rates could continue to rise.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has highlighted the coverage of the M&G's new health journalism centre, Bhekisisa, in his budget vote speech.

New research has bad news for millions of South Africans with high blood sugar: they are three times more likely to develop active tuberculosis.

Health activist group TAC takes Benny Malakoane and others to court for allegedly giving a dying woman's hospital bed to an ANC official.

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

The solution lays in addressing 'how we raise our boys' and how we equip parents to be parents. But there's a long way to go.