What’s a Pelebox and can it make medicine collection in the public health sector easy enough for people to fetch their meds ...

MomConnect, a health department mobile app, which close to 5-million moms who rely on public health services have used, turns ...

The government is facing close to R78-billion in medical negligence claims, which is nearly 80% of the budget used to treat ...

Data from the latest District Health Barometer show that close to 365 teenagers give birth in South Africa every day. Ten of ...

South Africa had 13 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases in three provinces (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape). Two people have died. So far, all cases required hospitalisation.

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In today’s newsletter, Christina Pitt takes a look at the Tobacco Bill. Sign up today. It seems South Africa’s long-awaited new anti-tobacco legislation is set to go nowhere slowly — again. On ...

In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of ...

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