What’s a Pelebox and can it make medicine collection in the public health sector easy enough for people to fetch their meds ...

MomConnect, a health department mobile app, which close to 5-million moms who rely on public health services have used, turns ...

The government is facing close to R78-billion in medical negligence claims, which is nearly 80% of the budget used to treat ...

Data from the latest District Health Barometer show that close to 365 teenagers give birth in South Africa every day. Ten of ...

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South Africa had 13 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases in three provinces (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape). Two people have died. So far, all cases required hospitalisation.

In today’s newsletter, Christina Pitt takes a look at the Tobacco Bill. Sign up today. It seems South Africa’s long-awaited new anti-tobacco legislation is set to go nowhere slowly — again. On ...

In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of ...

South Africa had 13 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases in three provinces (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape). Two ...