While discoveries like these rarely make the news, it happens all the time. We asked leading forensic pathologist Shakeera Holland what her team found after studying remains at the Diepkloof Forensic ...

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Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health ...

South Africans in Wuhan are set to come back home on Friday, but our secret journaller has a few final thoughts to share in this final instalment of our series of first-hand accounts from citizens ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone and Mia Malan explain why South Africa still as unsafe abortions. Sign up for our newsletter today. There are piles of R100 notes, a hand holding a tinted vial, ...

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In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene discusses how Hlokomela Clinic is making sure patients can still get tested and treated for HIV in spite of US global funding cuts. Sign up for our newsletter today.

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 ...

Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang say the past has some ...