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Doctors Without Borders has stressed the critical importance of adequate investment into the prevention of diseases such as Ebola and cholera.

Research suggests that taking HIV medication while CD4 counts are higher than 350 does not reduce mortality in those who are co-infected.

A TB patient finally gets a disability grant and a woman has free access to the world's most expensive drug.

Why did the one-million AstraZeneca vaccines South Africa received earlier this month have to be sent for lab tests but not the Johnson & Johnson jabs that arrived this week? The world of regulatory approval for medicines can be confusing. We break it down for you.

Last week the World Intellectual Property Organisation announced copyright exceptions on materials for visually impaired people.

Diepsloot’s Green Door, a help service for victims of sexual violence, gets a boost, writes Mia Malan.

The intellectual property policy, which will allow access to cheaper drugs, has yet to be finalised while patients are dying, say health activists.

Specialist scientists, masks, hand sanitiser and stricter rules for liquor sales will be crucial to easing the burden of South Africa’s future COVID-19 waves, experts say.

You're a public health official and want to get lifesaving information to the public. But how? Here's why experts should be on Twitter.

In the developed world up to 5% of patients with chronic kidney disease are children. But statistics are harder to come by in the developing world.

Free State's health department has been reported to the SA Human Rights Commission over "rights violations" such as food shortages and overcrowding.

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A commission of inquiry into the the Free State's healthcare has found that the province's lack of services endanger the lives of vulnerable people.

Our obese nation could be slimmed down and help limit chronic diseases such heart attacks, strokes and diabetes.

The government has set several commendable goals but will have to improve its delivery.