Medical school prepares our future doctors to save lives. But with death being the endpoint for all of us, shouldn’t we be talking about it?

Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines.

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 ...

A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny ...

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 anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. Research shows the shot could help end Aids in ...

Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes rise too, ...

Ida Jooste is a seasoned health and science journalist. She has worked in newsrooms in Durban, Johannesburg and Nairobi, winning more than 20 national and international media awards for her work. An ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how US President Donald Trump ordered USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down. Sign up for our newsletter today. Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in ...

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...