More and more research is showing how climate change could trigger increased migration and, with it, another obstacle in ...

Decrypting the nutritional label on your favourite packaged food products might get easier sometime soon. But that doesn’t ...

From August, clinics countrywide will issue patients who are doing well on their ARVs, a six-month supply, twice a year. 6MMD ...

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told Bhekisisa’s TV show, Health Beat, in July, that he “would strongly consider” a ministerial advisory committee (MAC), like the one we had during the COVID pandemic ...

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 ...

All the episodes of Bhekisisa’s television shows, Health Beat and Health Hub.

In the latest episode of Health Beat, we unpack the growing use of the psychedelic drug, ketamine, to treat severe depression and chronic pain. Research shows it can work quickly to improve mood, but ...

Which variants have been detected in South Africa and how do they differ? Each form of the virus has slight changes and therefore behaves slightly differently and could impact what the epidemic looks ...

Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer have said low vaccine uptake in Africa is due to increasing hesitancy on the continent. But the truth is inequitable distribution of COVID vaccines have left ...

South Africa’s COVID vaccine roll-out plan has practically changed overnight after a small study’s results showed that the AstraZeneca jab, that the country bought 1.5-million doses of, doesn’t ...