Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn’t cancel the cuts to ...

Medical school prepares our future doctors to save lives. But with death being the endpoint for all of us, shouldn’t we be talking about it?

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 ...

Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines.

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 ...

Ida Jooste is a seasoned health and science journalist. She has worked in newsrooms in Durban, Johannesburg and Nairobi, winning more than 20 national and international media awards for her work. An ...

A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny black box.

South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding. Health economists warn of a surge in new infections and deaths if South ...

The health minister has stressed the importance of improving tuberculosis treatment so as to help mitigate the drastic impact of TB-HIV co-infection.