More and more research is showing how climate change could trigger increased migration and, with it, another obstacle in ...

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told Bhekisisa’s TV show, Health Beat, in July, that he “would strongly consider” a ministerial advisory committee (MAC), like the one we had during the COVID pandemic ...

Decrypting the nutritional label on your favourite packaged food products might get easier sometime soon. But that doesn’t ...

From August, clinics countrywide will issue patients who are doing well on their ARVs, a six-month supply, twice a year. 6MMD ...

The health department has R622-million extra to prop up South Africa’s HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid ...

Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn’t cancel the cuts to ...

SA has accepted an offer of just over R520-million from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. Research shows the shot could help end Aids in ...

Fruit juice can have as much — or more — sugar than soda or energy drinks. But unlike those drinks, juices won’t come with a warning label under SA’s latest draft regulations for food labelling. We ...

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

The National Health Insurance (NHI), for which membership will be compulsory, is a funding scheme that aims to address healthcare inequity in South Africa. The scheme will do this by creating a fund ...