Health and nutrition experts say the health consequences of South Africa’s food insecurity crisis can begin long before someone becomes sick enough to need ...

Informal gold miners working around old mine dumps between Nyakallong and Allanridge in the Free State say they risk exposure to mine dust, mercury and other ...

Traditional healers say patients they refer to public clinics can fall through the cracks because the two health systems don’t communicate effectively.

A stroke victim's desperate journey highlights the ambulance shortage in the Eastern Cape, leaving patients in peril.

When the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) transgender clinic where Kamogelo Moamogoe received her hormone treatment closed last year ...

Two families in Nyakallong, Free State, are mourning the deaths of two young boys who drowned in a mine dam near Harmony Gold’s Target 2 Rock Dump in ...

August is National Organ Donor Awareness Month in South Africa and aims to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation. According to the Organ Donor ...

Registered dietitian and public health nutritionist Helen Donkin from the Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA) analysed seven of the meals, using ...

Two young women in North West share their stories about how painful uterine fibroids have impacted their lives while facing delayed medical treatment.

More than 10 intersex adults have approached a South African support organisation since 2020 saying they underwent surgery or other irreversible medical ...

South Africa’s HIV response is, in many ways, a remarkable success story. Millions of people now have access to life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART), transforming HIV from a fatal illness into a ...

Five suspects, including two Mexican nationals, were arrested and drugs and laboratory equipment with an estimated street value of R600 million were seized.