As South Africa's climate warms, the air is changing — and the effects are landing directly in people's lungs. Here's what ...

SA’s first consignment of the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection, lenacapavir — 37 920 doses — arrived last week at OR Tambo ...

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 ...

On Monday night, the US Embassy in Tshwane issued a press release, confirming Bhekisisa’s earlier story, published on Monday, that projects funded via the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, ...

South Africa is trialling a cheap, portable TB test that costs a third of the current standard. But the new test can't detect drug-resistant TB, raising questions about how much diagnostic accuracy a ...

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 ...

Seven years after Cyclone Idai ripped through Beira, the city's wounds are still raw. As a new storm gathered in the Indian Ocean in February, journalist Sean Christie found a city caught in a ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how the twice-yearly HIV prevention jab, lenacapavir, will be rolled out with or without the US. Sign up for our newsletter today. The Global Fund for HIV, TB ...