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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Even in 2023, infants under five years in the Free State are still dying from a lack of healthy food. From April to June this year, 21 children in the province died from severe acute malnutrition (SAM ...

Speaking to eNCA, a prominent leader of Operation Dudula, Simphiwe Shabangu, said they believe that people who have migrated from other countries must use private health insurance rather than the ...