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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines. Here’s why South Africa’s public health experts are scared.