A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released this week has some ideas on how to fight Big Tobacco’s influence machine — ...

Fruit juice can have as much — or more — sugar than soda or energy drinks. But unlike those drinks, juices won’t come with a warning label under SA’s latest draft regulations for food labelling. We ...

Elon Musk admitted to using it for depression, Friends actor Matthew Perry died from using too much of it and in South Africa, some ketamine healthcare providers are serving it up irresponsibly. So ...

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...

With a daily dose of medically supervised methadone, some drug dependents in the City of Tshwane are giving up their needles and heroin. Although the health department will launch pilot programmes at ...

Reaction from health experts in South Africa . With the help of HIV activists, Bhekisisa is gathering responses to the Trump administration’s abrupt cuts of USAID-funded HIV projects.The common theme?

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...

5. Why are you not buying ICU beds? The private sector doesn’t have critical care services, it only has intensive care services. But ICU beds in the private sector cost thousands [of Rands] because ...

Gilead Sciences, the maker of a twice-a year anti-HIV injection, has approached South Africa’s medicine regulator to discuss how to get the shot registered locally as fast as possible in the country.; ...

At the height of Aids denialism in South Africa, little data was available on the proportion of people infected with HIV. But the Human Sciences Research Council’s first national survey in 2002 was a ...

Mia Malan and Linda Pretorius break down how to get meds to Africa faster in today’s newsletter. Sign up.. The African Medicines Agency (Ama) — a medicines regulator in the making for Africa — has ...