As climate change intensifies, a toxic legacy grows more dangerous in Soweto. Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as more floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining ...

The tobacco industry is getting ready for the final showdown as South Africa’s Tobacco Bill heads into its last rounds, pulling out its well-worn talking points on illicit trade and high taxes. We ...

A review of 37 studies found that when people stop taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, the weight comes back. Experts working in obesity aren’t surprised because, they say, just like type 2 ...

After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities ...

Many mothers who work as domestic workers have to make an impossible choice: keep your job or breastfeed your child. It’s a ...

For the past three years, Buhle Sikade, 22, has been using an injection that gives her almost foolproof protection against ...

Gilead Sciences, the maker of a twice-a year anti-HIV injection, has approached South Africa’s medicine regulator to discuss how to get the shot registered locally as fast as possible in the country.

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan tells us why the US isn’t giving SA LEN. Sign up for our newsletter today. By shutting South Africa out of its overseas funding for the roll-out of the revolutionary ...

In today’s newsletter, Linda Pretorius asks “who should get what slice of the LEN pie”? Sign up for our newsletter today. What’s the best way to divvy up a shipment of medicine that will cover less ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how Sahpra registered LEN within 65 days, how it works and how it will get distributed. Sign up for our newsletter today. South Africa has become the first ...