South Africa’s health department should assess the inclusion of boys in its public human papillomavirus vaccination programme ...

This assessment, argues Professor Colleen Aldous, should account for the protection boys could gain, the cost of delivering it, and the work still required to reach girls who miss vaccination and ...

South Africa’s rollout of lenacapavir, a six-monthly HIV prevention injection, requires nurses to learn, adapt and find ways ...

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

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

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

Shut down by the apartheid government for providing care to child patients of all races, Durban’s Addington Children’s Hospital is well on its way from a ghostly ruin into a lifeline for a new ...

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

From inspecting spaza shops to monitoring water quality, Environmental Health Practitioners help prevent disease before outbreaks occur. A Public Protector investigation reveals why Gauteng ...

Much of South Africa’s public health sector is plagued by long waiting times for surgery, a situation that was made much worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, an inspiring project at Groote Schuur ...

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 ...

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 ...