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The Delta variant, first identified in India, has been detected in all of South Africa's provinces. This incredibly transmissible form of the virus is now the main form of the virus circulating in the country. Here’s what we know so far.

Medicines regulators constantly monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines by tracking reactions among people who have gotten the jab. Each case is investigated to see if the symptoms are caused by the vaccine, in which case the response will be listed as a side effect.

Courts ruled for compensation for gold miners affected by silicosis, but what about the impact years of caring for the sick had on women and children?

This is the second podcast in our ‘Me & My’ series with Dr Sindi van Zyl. In this episode Dr Sindi answers all our questions about what you should do if you’re pregnant.

Find out how our news editor Joan van Dyk decides what our articles should add to the news cycle.

Residents of Masakhane in eMalahleni have never had running water. Instead they have to use buckets and wheelbarrows to carry water from one of the 33 JoJo tanks in the area. But these tanks are not filled regularly, leaving community members to wonder when they’ll next have access to this basic service.

Here are three ways to tell whether or not you might be going for an abortion at an illegitimate practitioner.

Me and My is our new podcast series for young women. In our first episode we explore what HPV means for you and your sex life: When should you get your Pap smear and how often? Can you still get vaccinated against HPV as an adult?

Today, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will report on the outcomes of the Presidential Health Summit held in October last year.

When a rural hospital brought this woman into its multidrug-resistant TB programme, it saw a 20% jump in the people who were cured. The catch? She’s not even a doctor.

Researchers have found that 96% of global health conferences happen in high- or middle-income countries. Less than four in 10 attendees at these gatherings are from poorer nations that have the highest burden of disease.

It took her parents, it changed the way she saw herself at times, it reaffirmed her purpose in life … then she wrote her HIV a letter. Now, she’s ready to share it with the world.

The health department won’t buy any more COVID vaccines this year. That includes Sinopharm, Sinovac and jabs for children.

Superbugs are fighting back and our state hospitals don’t have the right specialists or enough funding to stop more germs from becoming untreatable.

South Africa has enough unused doses of Pfizer vaccines to immunise half of the country’s 6.5-million children aged 12 to 17. This means matriculants will be protected as they sit their final school exams. But they’ll only be getting one dose of the two-shot vaccine.

With a pinch of salt and a dash of love, these stroke patients are getting better with the help of cake ingredients.