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Can the health minister fix our health system and what will it take? Here’s what Mkhize’s character, views and his past experience as a doctor tell us.

The National Health Insurance Bill was released on 8 August but a look at how well our mothers – and our finances – do in the public health sector does not bode well. Uncover the figures and the power structures that will shape the future of healthcare in South Africa. 

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize spoke at an exclusive Bhekisisa event for editors on 6 August about the National Health Insurance and what it means for reproductive justice.

Health MEC Bandile Masuku tables his inaugural budget before the Gauteng Provincial Legislature. In the speech, areas such as health facility upgrades and security...

Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa's shores in 2019.

The time for talk is over, said Zweli Mkhize in his first budget speech as health minister. But if you thought that Cabinet's approval of the National Health Insurance Bill was the end of discussions, here's why you’re wrong.

Today, we set out on our own after calling the Mail & Guardian home for more than half a decade.

One in three French people think vaccines are unsafe. Here's how the country is fighting antivaxxers through social media.

We've proven Depo Provera doesn't make it easier to contract HIV. But African women are still left with too few contraceptive choices.

Women may be paying the price for decades’ old concessions to the medical aid industry.

When medical schemes and the law count conceiving as a pre-existing condition, pregnant women lose.

Before 2011, this country couldn’t screen for cervical cancer let alone prevent it. Since then everything’s changed.

Women – many of them mothers – constitute more than half of the population. What should moms think of before casting their vote?

When a river and several hours of dirt roads stand between you & the nearest hospital, giving birth can be deadly. One nurse is hoping to change that.

Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.

Pregnancy in South Africa is getting safer, but still not safe enough. Here’s what the health department says they’re doing about it.