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 ...

Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work ...

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 ...

The major backer of the lenacapavir roll-out is assuring nervous researchers that they will keep their part of funding promises. It’s a good economic investment, says the Fund’s Peter Sands, into a ...

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 ...