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South Africa has just confirmed its seventh case of the new coronavirus. Here's what you can do to protect yourself.

Sex workers in the country want their profession to be decriminalised so that they can access health services without being discriminated against.

Joan Collins* worked as an intensive care nurse in Cape Town. But that's not the only way she made a living.

Independent research shows 54% of cigarettes sold in South Africa are illegal, which means the taxman is losing revenue, and the country’s anti-smoking plans are becoming less effective. Watch this to find out why.

Too much greenhouse gases going into the air from burning coal, oil and gas make the atmosphere warmer than it should be. This causes global weather patterns to change, aka climate change. Watch this animation to learn more.

Medical doctors and traditional healers often struggle to trust each other. But in this rural KZN community they learned how to work together.

In theory, the National Health Insurance (NHI) could transform our failing healthcare system. But, many South Africans have little faith in the politicians who are supposed to look after the public purse. We take a look at how the residents of Tembisa cope with the results of corruption at their hospital, the systems that private medical aid schemes have in place to curb fraud, and how the planned NHI could benefit from being more transparent.

How does the health department deal with doctors and nurses discriminating against patients who have a higher chance of contracting HIV? Teaching them about being sensitive and trying to understand the cause of the issue, says Thato Chidarikire, acting head of HIV programmes at the department. Mia Malan found out more during this interview for Bhekisisa’s monthly TV show, Health Beat.

Male breast cancer is the same as female breast cancer and men should be checking for lumps as well.

Reports of a rare heart condition linked to the Pfizer COVID vaccine should not deter teens from getting the jab.

Mia Malan founded Bhekisisa in 2013. Since then the centre’s staff has grown from 3 to 20 full and part-time employees. Here’s what she’s had to do to make this happen.

Should you exercise a lot, or a little? Should it be in the morning or at night? Go with Mia Malan and Jon Patricios as they cut through the fads in this easy guide to heart health.

The novel coronavirus has swept through Khayelitsha in the Western Cape — and so has the fear of contracting it.

Why do children bully? We look at some of the factors that lead to this behaviour.

As day one of the country's 21-day lockdown draws to a close, ministers are expected to outline the state of the country's response. The briefing comes on the heels of South Africa's first deaths from the new virus.

Children who are exposed to the toxic heavy metal, lead, are more likely to commit violent crime and to get lower scores on intelligence tests as adults. But experts and industry groups say the government isn’t doing enough to manage lead.