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

In this newsletter, Christina Pitt looks at how smart lockers could help people in the Eastern Cape get their medication on ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a developing story. We update the copy, map, timeline and press releases each time the health department announces new cases. South Africa is one of 14 countries that will be financially ...

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 ...

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work ...

In today’s newsletter, health reporter Zano Kunene tells us more about out-of-court mediation for medical malpractice claims. Sign up. Paying billions of rands for court cases in which doctors and ...

Section 33 of the NHI Act will not be scrapped, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, even if it means the end of the government of national unity. (Justin Barlow) “You can’t come and tell me ‘I ...