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

Violence has contributed to the epidemic; aid agencies can't travel freely and are removing nonessential staff.

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

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

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

Government and medical aids may be uncomfortable but necessary bedfellows.

McCord Hospital in Durban will be sold to the government in a deal that will be concluded next year.

Simple steps you can take to protect your practice and your patients from the coronavirus, from an expert at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Make sure that you and your family don't end up as statistics of this festive season.

Miners with silicosis and TB are entitled to a small payout, but don't claim because they are kept in the dark about their rights.

Medical malpractice litigation is preventing young doctors from entering high-risk fields of medicine.

#TrackingTheNSP: Ahead of World Aids Day, hear just how far provinces have come putting the national plan into practice.

The director of the Free Market Foundation suggests that an inquiry into private healthcare was deceptively orchestrated by the health minister.

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

We teamed up with readers and translators to create some of the first graphics ever on abortion in all South Africa's official languages.

While 20-million people have been tested for HIV in South Africa, there are still shortages of medicines and mismanagement in the health sector.