Think you know South Africa’s health system? Put your knowledge to the test with Bhekisisa’s health crossword. Drawing on ...

South Africa returned from the International Aids Conference in Rio with three big HIV announcements: a new dashboard ...

Very clever people with a decade or four of subject expertise in public health need to know how to talk to the rest of us about their work in plain English. Here’s why, and how they can get started.

Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide, and most individuals will be exposed to it at some point in their lives. While it is often talked ...

Newborn deaths in South Africa are low but rising, and maternal deaths are high and not coming down fast enough. That’s what the data in the latest District Health Barometer, released at the end of ...

South Africa returned from the International Aids Conference in Rio with three big HIV announcements: a new dashboard tracking the roll-out of the country’s six-monthly HIV prevention injection, ...

Having a baby in sub-Saharan Africa is riskier than anywhere else according to the latest State of the World's Mothers report.

Yogan Pillay is the director for HIV and TB delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and extraordinary professor in the department of global health at Stellenbosch University. Prior to his ...

A new once-a-month HIV prevention pill is moving into the final stage of testing. But early South African uptake data of the six-monthly anti-HIV jab suggest the biggest breakthrough may not be a new ...