Newsrooms compete for stories, audiences and money. But for two days, we tried something different: Bhekisisa shared what ...

South Africa’s first generic semaglutide injection arrived in August, with many more expected. More competition should push ...

The Ngong in Nairobi and the Jukskei in Johannesburg run through some of Africa's most crowded neighbourhoods. Both are ...

The scientists in South Africa who alerted the world about the Omicron variant are now unable to access enough of the chemicals they need to keep tracking the virus. The travel bans on southern ...

Our website holds years of health reporting, investigations and data. Now you can explore it in a different way: through a crossword. Test your knowledge of South Africa’s healthcare landscape, ...

Mia Malan is the executive director and editor-in-chief of the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. Malan founded Bhekisisa in 2013 and has won over 20 African journalism awards. She’s a former ...

The $400-million that the United States (US) Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn’t cancel the cuts to global HIV and TB programmes ...

South Africa returned from the International Aids Conference in Rio with three big HIV announcements: a new dashboard tracking the roll-out of the country's six-monthly HIV prevention injection, ...

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has highlighted the coverage of the M&G's new health journalism centre, Bhekisisa, in his budget vote speech.

Think you know South Africa’s health system? Put your knowledge to the test with Bhekisisa’s health crossword. Drawing on years of reporting, investigations, data and policy ...

The palliative care team at Groote Schuur Hospital fields questions about death and dying that the rest of the health system struggles to answer. Here’s why getting those answers right takes an entire ...

In Westbury, Johannesburg, drugs and gangs overshadow daily life, trapping new generations in addiction and crime. While police crackdowns bring short-lived relief, the Global Initiative Against ...