After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities ...

A review of 37 studies found that when people stop taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, the weight comes back. Experts working in obesity aren’t surprised because, they say, just like type 2 ...

Many mothers who work as domestic workers have to make an impossible choice: keep your job or breastfeed your child. It’s a ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan and Anna-Maria van Niekerk introduce us to Buhle Sikade, 22, who for the past three years, has been taking the revolutionary anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. Don’t miss out.

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The tobacco industry is getting ready for the final showdown as South Africa’s Tobacco Bill heads into its last rounds, pulling out its well-worn talking points on illicit trade and high taxes. We ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone shares what experts have to say about some of the most pressing health issues this year. Sign up for our newsletter today. South Africa is a study in contrasts.

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan and Tanya Pampalone tells us more about the links between floods, crops and farmers’ mental health. Sign up for our newsletter today. The N14 between Ouagadougou and ...