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Rent arrears have shut a clinic's doors – just 500m from the Free State health MEC's office.

The department moved people to save money and NGOs were happy to take them in for cash.

A report notes that TB rates sky-rocketed in the 1990s fuelled by the HIV epidemic, and warns of a similar situation with diabetes-related TB.

Experts say the vast sum spent by Sylvia Lucas on unhealthy food is indicative of a big fat problem.

Research shows mothers’ milk produces children less likely to be involved in crime.

Unions say they will not accept anything less than 7.3% wage increases.

The HPCSA has parted ways with its CEO, COO and head of legal services in light of damning findings by a ministerial task team.

Reporter Pontsho Pilane has been recognised for her reporting on menstruation.

Selected state clinics will soon provide a pill that can prevent HIV infection to people at high risk of contracting the virus.

South Africa’s medicines regulator is helping to process pharmaceutical companies’ applications for medicines to be approved by the African Medicines Agency. But the country won’t have a say in the appointment of the agency’s head because it hasn’t yet ratified the treaty for its establishment.

‘One-stop’ government centres face loss of important psychological help as international funding dries up.

The health department calls arrests 'unfortunate' after senior officials spend night trying to get workers out of cells.

It’s a new normal, warn South Africa’s leading coronavirus scientists. And schools and workplaces won’t be exempt from seeing sporadic outbreaks of the new coronavirus, they say.

Contraception may be finally coming to a secondary school near you.

Could do-it-yourself birth control injections take off in South Africa?

A lack of competition in the sector isn't just bad for your wallet, it could be bad for your health. Find out what it means for the National Health Insurance in this latest article in our series, "Compass: Charting a course to the NHI".