A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny ...

South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding ...

Based on the best international studies, here are three ways we can reduce heavy drinking: Limit the advertising and promotion of alcohol, which influences young people to drink heavily at a time when ...

Compromise isn’t a word favoured by the Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, when it comes to rolling out universal healthcare, despite objections from some of the ANC’s coalition partners. Mia Malan ...

Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool that makes child abandonment and trafficking easy, or a lifesaver for mothers ...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released this week has some ideas on how to fight Big Tobacco’s influence machine — ...

Professor Renata Schoeman is a Cape Town-based psychiatrist and the co-author of South Africa’s <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ADHD management guidelines and chairs the <a href=" ...

‘Thank you for partnering with USAID and God Bless America’ USAID-funded district health projects, supported outside of Pepfar, but with other US government funds administered by USAID, have also been ...

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...

In South Africa’s rural areas, people often face a long, arduous journey to get to a clinic where they can pick up their HIV medicines. Not taking the drugs regularly will mean that the person’s ...