Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines.

A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny ...

Telling most South Africans they can’t drink is a nonstarter. But what we all do need to know is just how dangerous it is — and what we can do to curb it.

South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding ...

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...

The health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and TB projects in SA will end by September 30. The department has calculated that it needs R2.82-billion to plug the gap for ...

There were empty seats in San Francisco last week at an annual international science conference which has delivered some of the world’s most groundbreaking HIV research. It was a throwback to another ...

The Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria says it will fund the roll-out of the twice-yearly anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, for poorer countries, including South Africa, with or without the help of the US ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how US President Donald Trump ordered USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down. Sign up for our newsletter today. Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in ...

In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene explains why SA will miss the global noncommunicable diseases target. Sign up for our newsletter today. In 2020, diabetes killed 32 000 people in South Africa — ...

The original grants of Pepfar-funded organisations who are funded through the Centres for Disease Control have been reinstated. This is because a federal judge enforced a temporary restraining order ...