This week on Health Beat, the booming market for illegal weight-loss jabs: why are so many people willing to risk them?
The judges deciding the NHI case are part of a 30-year tradition of using evidence, constitutional principles and careful ...
Access to harm reduction treatments, including opioid substitution therapy, clean needles and drug counselling treatment ...
As anti-immigrant protests gather momentum, a clause in the NHI Act could deny many refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented ...
As the president delays the implementation of the NHI, Health Beat examines the court and constitutional clashes blocking South Africa’s most sweeping health overhaul since 1994.
Think you know South Africa’s health system? Put your knowledge to the test with Bhekisisa’s health crossword. Drawing on years of reporting, investigations, data and policy coverage, the puzzle ...
US funding cuts gutted the NGOs that provided most of South Africa's transgender healthcare overnight. Last week, things became even cloudier with news reports that the US government plans to ...
The implementation of the NHI is effectively frozen in court and constitutional clashes, blocking South Africa's most sweeping health overhaul since 1994. We talked to health economist Susan Cleary to ...
Government officials and McCord Hospital's board picked up negotiations as a court interdict has stalled the health facility's closure.
A large chunk of our reporting focuses on HIV. Since the launch of Bhekisisa in 2013, we’ve covered HIV in-depth — from the impact of the virus on former president Nelson Mandela’s family to the ...
US funding cuts gutted the NGOs that provided most of South Africa's transgender healthcare overnight. Last week, things ...