The health department has R622-million extra to prop up South Africa’s HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid ...

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.

Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn’t cancel the cuts to global HIV and TB programmes made in February. HIV projects that have ...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released this week has some ideas on how to fight Big Tobacco’s influence machine — just as an SA Bill regulating newer tobacco products finally has reached ...

Fruit juice can have as much — or more — sugar than soda or energy drinks. But unlike those drinks, juices won’t come with a warning label under SA’s latest draft regulations for food labelling. We ...

Elon Musk admitted to using it for depression, Friends actor Matthew Perry died from using too much of it and in South Africa, some ketamine healthcare providers are serving it up irresponsibly. So ...

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

As politicians, activists and researchers duke it out from labs and clinics and press conferences, those who have the most to lose from the HIV funding cuts told Bhekisisa they have been left to fend ...

Tanya Pampalone is Bhekisisa's consulting editor. Pampalone is the former managing editor of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, executive editor of the Mail & Guardian and head of ...

More than half a million previously diagnosed people with HIV have been started on HIV treatment since the end of February, the health minister says. But can a big jump in 10 weeks really be? We look ...