On the morning of Monday, 1 June, around 7am, I was covering a story near Addington Gateway Clinic in Durban when a mother, holding her four-month-old baby, approached me. I was filming, and the ...

Due to extremely low insulin reserves, patients with this form of diabetes may develop dangerously low blood sugar when given insulin.

Elderly women who received the first roll-out of HIV treatment in 2005 and who are still alive have been “swallowed” by the healthcare system, with little long-term support available.

“I used to see homeless people every day in South Beach, and it broke my heart,” says Yolanda Zikhali (47). “Some were hungry, weak and sick, while others had no one to care for them. I then thought I ...

In Hoedspruit, along the R527, abandoned vendor stalls have turned into makeshift housing for 120 displaced people. They lost their homes in November 2025, when an unattended candle sparked a fire ...

South African health authorities are tracing 97 contacts of two patients confirmed to be infected with Hantavirus, for possible exposure to the virus. So far, 91 of the 97 contacts have been traced.

When Boitshwarelo Moholo from Atamelang, Dellerayville in the North West, first learned that her son Kamogelo, who was three years old at the time, had autism, her world shifted instantly. Moholo says ...

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents like rats and mice, and can cause severe disease in humans. Not all hantaviruses cause disease in people, and only a small number like the Andes ...

Every month, 65-year-old Joseph Ntshala* visits Finetown Clinic in the south of Johannesburg to collect his hypertension medication. And at every visit, he has to prepare to spend the whole day at the ...

Malaria outbreaks are rising again in parts of southern Africa. Across the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region, there is a convergence of pressures: climate-driven outbreaks, funding ...

South Africa recently announced the arrival of the first shipment of lenacapavir, the injection proven highly effective in preventing HIV with only two jabs a year. While there’s been a lot of ...