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The year's biggest health story by far has been the cuts to US aid for health and US support for health research. But it's also been a year of important HIV prevention developments, NHI court cases, ...

The NGO Collective Voices for Health Access launched a civil society consensus statement on "Access to Healthcare for All in South Africa" and an educational booklet on "Your Right to HealthCare in ...

For employers, the offering from Sanlam and Fedhealth provides access to an ecosystem that combines traditional cover, ...

Legislation aimed at reforming South Africa’s health system through a controversial national insurance plan was approved by a second parliamentary chamber, which ignored pleas from opposition parties, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Thethiwe Mahlangu woke early on a chilly morning and walked through her busy South African township, where minibuses hooted to pick up commuters and smoke from sidewalk breakfast ...

Mental health messaging on platforms like TikTok and WhatsApp is becoming common in the digital age. Globally, digital media ...

MUSINA, South Africa — It's 6 a.m. and Tholakele Nkwanyana is one of the first people to arrive at the Diepsloot public health clinic in Johannesburg, not to seek medical attention but to stop ...

It was almost inevitable. Fifth in 2019, fourth in 2020 and 2021 and third in 2022 and 2023. At the end of the 2023 financial year, South Africa’s Discovery Health, the brainchild of Adrian Gore in ...

South Africa’s sugar industry risks losing as much as 16% of its cane-growing area and more than a 10th of farm-level jobs if the government raises a levy on sugar-sweetened drinks and expands the tax ...

While COVID-19's evolution is expected, unchecked spread poses a risk. While U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock raised alarm bells this week by saying the COVID-19 variant first identified in South ...