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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone introduces us to a son, a mom and life with cerebral palsy. Sign up for our newsletter today. Cerebral palsy often announces itself in the space where a ...

Clinics in South Africa and Zambia don’t yet have enough doses of groundbreaking anti-HIV jab lenacapavir for everyone who wants it. How do you persuade people to want a new medicine when there isn’t ...

Very clever people with a decade or four of subject expertise in public health need to know how to talk to the rest of us about their work in plain English. Here’s why, and how they can get started.