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In Life Esidimeni, we can see the ghosts of our past. Read why.

When we got our independence, we did not ask ourselves what kind of ethics this new country needed. SA’s health ombud reflects on his first big case.

Newer, lifesaving drugs for South Africa's "silent" killer aren't yet available in the country.

Go inside this unspoken ethical dilemma South African doctors face every day.

South Africa could become one of a growing number of countries that require plain packaging for cigarettes.

It’s been a steep learning curve for districts that sometimes don’t have the know-how — or the data — to write and track local plans.

The youngest children are the ones most at risk — and less likely to report it.

Late UCT Medical School dean Bongani Mayosi pioneered the response to a little known but common heart disease at home and across the continent.

The damage caused by the controversial US policy will only start showing when it’s too late to reverse it, activists and researchers argue.

The nation's nursing body says one official has been hauled before it.

Men who have sex with men can now take on-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, safely.

Former Health MEC ​Qedani Mahlangu is implicated in deadly mismanagement but still survives to be elected into the Provincial Executive Committee.

Researchers once again confirmed: It’s impossible for HIV-positive people on treatment to transmit the virus through sex — this time among gay men.

The pair continues to survive politically despite being implicated in deadly mismanagement and graft during their tenures as Gauteng health MECs.

An international drug maker may have intentionally muscled out local competition to win the bulk of a national birth control tender.

SA has a chance to lead the world in realising Madiba’s dream this September as the United Nations convenes its first high level meeting on TB.