To protect people’s right to healthcare, the South African government must table and pass the Patent Amendment Bill without delay ...

Mphonyana Mtamane, a GBV survivor, endured a lengthy delay for vital HIV treatment at Zola Clinic on 27 May 2026.

Rethabile Community Health Centre in Polokwane, where a teenager says she was refused abortion care by nurses citing their religious beliefs. Photo: Moyahabo Mabeba Limpopo: An 18-year-old from rural ...

South Africa’s battle to tackle one of the world’s oldest, curable and preventable diseases came into the spotlight again at the recent SA TB Conference. Over four days, scientists, researchers, ...

South Africa hosted approximately 2.4 million international migrants as of 2022, accounting for 3.9% of the population. Most come from the Southern African Development Community region including ...

It's been two weeks since Gauteng began rolling out lenacapavir (LEN), but patients in parts of Pretoria are yet to get the jab ...

In Lukau Village, 17 elderly women, including 90-year-old Tshinakawu Ndou, have joined forces to fix roads so ambulances can reach the area during heavy rain. Residents say the work became even more ...

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents like rats and mice, and can cause severe disease in humans. Not all hantaviruses cause disease in people, and only a small number like the Andes ...

This week, clinics in six provinces started the rollout of Lenacapavir, an injection that has been shown to be more than 96% effective in preventing HIV with just two jabs a year. This is part of a ...

Forty-year-old Thulisile Nkosi* carefully counts the pills in her bottle before handing over a few to her friend. ”The tablets in the bottle are 28, so when I give her, I make sure I have some left ...

In June 2023, as former Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba concluded his seven year tenure, he delivered a scathing assessment of Gauteng, South Africa’s economic powerhouse and most ...

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says South Africa's HIV programme will not collapse. (Photo: GCIS) South Africa has not been able to raise any additional funds to plug the gap in the country’s HIV ...