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 ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan asks if SA’s Pepfar funding will end. Sign up for our newsletter today. “Can I be honest? That is the start of a horror movie.” We asked what life would look like for ...

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 ...

Access to oxygen could mean the difference between living or dying for a COVID patient. But developing countries lack the infrastructure to produce liquid oxygen and transport it to hospitals. Now a ...

Government officials and McCord Hospital's board picked up negotiations as a court interdict has stalled the health facility's closure.