South Africa has a healthcare worker crisis. Those in power need to face it and think bigger about how to address it, argues ...

As South Africa is piecing together a new policy document on palliative care services for people with life-limiting and ...

As South Africa is piecing together a new policy document on palliative care services for people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness, Motlalentoa Motsoane argues that making people’s lives ...

They are qualified, ready, and willing to serve their communities. But scores of these doctors in KwaZulu-Natal, are becoming ...

The road to cancer treatment in South Africa often involves many encounters with healthcare workers and long journeys far ...

Around 54 000 people died of TB in South Africa in 2024 and 249 000 fell ill with the disease, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO). Around 54 000 people died of TB in ...

In South Africa, tuberculosis is mainly diagnosed and treated in the public healthcare system. On paper, the private sector ...

To Professor Salim Abdool Karim, excellence should be the only standard. In science, he says he is inspired by imaginative thinking such as that of American comic publisher Stan Lee, co-creator of ...

Epinephrine auto-injectors, often known by the commercial name EpiPen, can be life-savers for people suffering severe allergic reactions, but the treatments are difficult to find in South Africa and ...

“We do not have a reach of rheumatology in all provinces in South Africa,” says Dr Ayesha Wadee, the president of the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association (SARAA). “I think there [are] a ...

HIV prevention injections have been registered for use in South Africa, but their high price and limited supply means that for the next few years, while awaiting more affordable generics, very few ...

South Africa’s HIV programme is under profound pressure. The answer should not be to make people living with HIV work harder ...