In South Africa, tuberculosis is mainly diagnosed and treated in the public healthcare system. On paper, the private sector ...

South Africa’s HIV programme is under profound pressure. The answer should not be to make people living with HIV work harder ...

From inspecting spaza shops to monitoring water quality, Environmental Health Practitioners help prevent disease before outbreaks occur. A Public Protector investigation reveals why Gauteng ...

A year or so ago, a young woman arrived at the St Anne’s Homes Women’s Shelter in Woodstock, Cape Town, so traumatised after a brutal sexual assault that she wept, alone, in her room for a week. “We ...

Much of South Africa’s public health sector is plagued by long waiting times for surgery, a situation that was made much worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, an inspiring project at Groote Schuur ...

It isn’t always easy to know what to believe when it comes to cancer. In part 2 of a Daily Maverick and Spotlight special ...

“We do not have a reach of rheumatology in all provinces in South Africa,” says Dr Ayesha Wadee, the president of the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association (SARAA). “I think there [are] a ...

HIV prevention injections have been registered for use in South Africa, but their high price and limited supply means that for the next few years, while awaiting more affordable generics, very few ...

Imagine you have been taking a medicine for years. Then one day you are told at the pharmacy that supplies have run out. In ...

Mary Selona is only half-joking when she says her favourite down-time activity as a strictly “indoorsy person” is catching up on sleep. The community activist who heads up the Blood River Advice ...

The Child Gauge highlighted that even with the best possible mental health promotion and prevention strategies, approximately 10% to 20% of children and adolescents will develop a mental disorder ...

Amid concerns over the security and safety of health workers at public health facilities in the Eastern Cape, the Democratic Nursing Union of South Africa (DENOSA) says it is considering legal action ...