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 ...

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 ...

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

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work ...

The $400-million that the United States (US) Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn’t cancel the cuts to global HIV and TB programmes ...

All the episodes of Bhekisisa’s television shows, Health Beat and Health Hub.

In the latest episode of Health Beat, we unpack the growing use of the psychedelic drug, ketamine, to treat severe depression and chronic pain. Research shows it can work quickly to improve mood, but ...