It’s been a year since the US government’s aid cuts sent shock waves around the world. But in one maternity hospital in ...

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has met with the South African Medical Association — one of the organisations taking him to court about the National Health Insurance Act — to talk about “things we ...

South Africa is trialling a cheap, portable TB test that costs a third of the current standard. But the new test can't detect ...

Nimo Omer is an award winning journalist and the assistant editor for The Guardian's First Edition newsletter.

The HIV prevention shot lenacapavir will be rolled out at South African clinics within the next couple of months — from 2027, the health department will also buy generics. But how best to spend the ...

Thirty years ago, having a drink or two every day was thought to be good for your heart — thanks in part to the so-called French paradox. But research now shows that even a little alcohol can up the ...

In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of ...

Yogan Pillay is the director for HIV and TB delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and extraordinary professor in the department of global health at Stellenbosch University. Prior to his ...

The toyi-toyiing "helps me to get rid of my frustrations at the hospital", says one doctor.

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains that South African universities have received cancellation letters confirming the end of their US-government funded HIV and TB research grants. Sign up for ...