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Health features and news from across Africa by Bhekisisa, the Mail & Guardian's health journalism centre.
Government hospitals face shortages of specialist doctors. To make it worse, not all of them are showing up to work
South Africa’s vaccine roll-out is happening – slowly. Only 3% of eligible adults have been fully vaccinated. KwaZulu-Natal is leading the pack with the Eastern Cape hot on its…
The HIV prevention tablet is now available in South Africa but popping a pill every day to stay HIV-negative may not be for everyone
Could companies’ wooing of social media influencers be just a clever ploy to get around the country’s tobacco advertising ban?
When kids at risk of suicide can talk to trained friends & family, they’re seven times less likely to die, says one of the world’s largest studies.
Health workers in Mpumalanga fear for their lives because of crime and unsafe buildings
For 25 years, scientists have wondered whether the Depo-Provera could increase people’s risk of contracting HIV. Today, we find out if it does.
We now know the answer after more than 25 years of guessing, but will women believe it?
We’ve proven Depo Provera doesn’t make it easier to contract HIV. But African women are still left with too few contraceptive choices.
Bhekisisa’s latest policy dialogue takes a deep dive into one of the biggest challenges facing SA’s HIV response at the 9th Aids conference.
Small town, big goals: Eshowe has become one of the first SA communities to put enough people on HIV treatment to reduce new infections in the area.
Today, SA boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, but 3.2-million people who need ARVs still aren’t on them. Here’s how to fix that.
The rresident promised more funding to the country’s one-stop centres for victims of abuse. But can provinces afford to make good on his promise?
Armed with blockchain and AI, health workers and campaigners are battling the bogus business that kills thousands.
Chikwanekwanes are trying to make it easier for rape survivors to get care, counselling and legal help under one roof but it’s easier said than done.
Will Ramaphosa’s new health minister wield enough power to bring recalcitrant MECs to heel?
Public health officials and journalists are like two peas in a pot — they need each other.
The bizarre case from Durban is at least the second such case nationally in the last three years.
Women may be paying the price for decades’ old concessions to the medical aid industry.
“The failure to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations will undermine Kenya’s aim of reaching universal health coverage,” UNAids says.
