A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny ...

South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding ...

Telling most South Africans they can’t drink is a nonstarter. But what we all do need to know is just how dangerous it is — and what we can do to curb it.

As politicians, activists and researchers duke it out from labs and clinics and press conferences, those who have the most to lose from the HIV funding cuts told Bhekisisa they have been left to fend ...

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

Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool that makes child abandonment and trafficking easy, or a lifesaver for mothers ...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released this week has some ideas on how to fight Big Tobacco’s influence machine — ...

Professor Renata Schoeman is a Cape Town-based psychiatrist and the co-author of South Africa’s <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ADHD management guidelines and chairs the <a href=" ...

Data from the latest District Health Barometer show that close to 365 teenagers give birth in South Africa every day. Ten of those daily teen births are to girls younger than 15. Experts say the ...

What makes the world’s most successful children’s TV programmes so addictive – and so strange? Linda Geddes explores the research on kids’ TV, what it’s teaching us about childhood development, and ...