A hotter Earth is a threat to human health. It means more floods, droughts and heatwaves, which in turn make many diseases spread faster. Higher temperatures also exacerbate air pollution, resulting ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone tells us why we need our educators to better understand how to work with disabilities. Sign up for our newsletter today. COMMENT My son, Nkosi, started high ...

While we’ve been arguing about the merits of electronic cigarettes as “safer” alternatives to tobacco and the fantastical ...

Richard van Zyl-Smit is a pulmonologist and professor of pulmonology in the department of medicine at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. He is also a principal investigator at UCT ...

Undocumented migrants and asylum seekers are being turned away from government clinics and hospitals by xenophobic groups, while the NHI Act says they’re only entitled to emergency care. HIV activists ...

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 ...

This week, the High Court ruled that blocking foreigners from healthcare is unconstitutional. So why does the National Health Insurance Act say that’s what we should do when it comes to HIV services?

Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand analysed small tissue samples of 1 586 children ...

On a recent day, Indira Govender, a doctor in a rural community in northern KwaZulu-Natal, was busy with her weekly session at the local clinic when she witnessed three people breaking down mentally.

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 ...

Although taxpayer money now funds the bulk of South Africa’s HIV programme, getting to the point where we have the largest HIV treatment programme in the world, would not have been possible without ...