For some teenagers, emotional pain manifests as deliberately cutting, burning, hitting, biting, scratching or picking at their skin
The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…
From porters to engineers, hospital staff navigate chronic underfunding and staffing shortages while maintaining world-class care at one of South Africa’s most storied medical…
The Human Rights Commission and legal experts say the Constitution, the National Health Act, the UN Refugee Convention and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights…
LGBTQIA+ organisations have accused Stats SA of being discriminatory for excluding transgender, non-binary and intersex categories in a question relating to sex
Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya among 27 countries yet to sign the treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency.
Framing coronavirus as a security threat is not the only possible approach
Before us is an opportunity to make sure we come together to ensure the government fixes what urgently needs to be mended.
Medicine shouldn’t be the only thing on the books at our medical schools. Here are some tips for healthcare workers to handle abuse.
The health department and the Health Professions Council of South Africa must act to protect the medics and patients.
The report describes medication shortages as "a serious threat to the public healthcare system". But the government says the figures are inaccurate.
Despite cervical cancer being the most preventable form of cancer, it is afflicting more South African women than any other kind.
In the state sector, not everyone is equal. Some of us have to pay an arm, a leg and a full working day.
Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has promised to get state facilities running to the highest standards.
With medical schemes going insolvent, Bonitas has lasted for 30 years and is still going strong, growing into a R6.1-billion entity.
The proposed NHI scheme will not have an impact on the demand for private health cover if the quality of public healthcare remains dire.
Security around hospitals must be tightened, Parliament has insisted, in the wake of the murder of a doctor by a patient at a hospital in Mpumalanga.
TB and HIV-infected patients who can’t pay for high-end medical insurance but can afford GP visits opt for state care, which offers better treatment.
