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Seven out of 10 women and four out of 10 men in SA have significantly more body fat than what is deemed healthy, shows a groundbreaking new study.

Professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of SA's foremost HIV researchers, were recently the health department's greatest enemies.

The province's health MEC has condemned the slogans marchers on the department have been chanting, calling them insulting and inappropriate.

His reasoning has come in for much criticism, but the minister has no wish to continue the debate.

According to a study, the discovery of how a woman's body responded to her HIV infection by making antibodies may hold the clue to a cure for Aids.

The chronic respiratory disease can be easily controlled and managed with proper diagnosis and the correct preventative medication

The Treatment Action Campaign believes antiretroviral treatment should be offered to all HIV-positive citizens, not just those with low CD4 counts.

Médecins Sans Frontières says in five months there has been no improvement with Eastern Cape HIV and TB drug stock-outs.

WATCH LIVE: Zweli Mkhize unveils the National Health Insurance Bill.

It’s been a bumper year for trouble for the country’s healthcare system and it's only June. Here's everything you might have missed.

Reporters lauded for their work on prison conditions, refugees’ access to health and SA’s road to a sugar tax.

Figure out your odds of falling pregnant via in vitro fertilisation with this new online calculator

The size of South Africa's super-sized sweet tooth may be over-stated

Despite an ongoing probe into alleged misconduct, he's back at Messina Hospital – as chief executive.

Due to the high costs of litigation medical negligence claims could bankrupt a future NHI, say experts.

The petition in question was initiated by the People's Health Movement, not the South African Medical Association or the Rural Doctors Association.