South Africa may join just ten countries in the world that provide antiretrovirals (ARVs) to people living with HIV upon diagnosis as new research spurs activists to demand immediate treatment for all people living with HIV.
Rooibos, honeybush and garlic may protect against cancer, which is set to increase massively in South Africa in the next 15 years
After years of mental distress from trying to deny her sexuality and hide it from her family, Noxolo Nxumalo has accepted that she loves women.
A recent cash-in-transit heist at a grant pay point has led the Department of Social Development to relook pay point security nationwide.
About 40 percent of the food produced globally is wasted while 795 million people go hungry, according to new research released yesterday (16 July)
A new fact sheet details the achievements of South Africa's HIV programme, which initiated more than 600,000 people on antiretroviral treatment in 2014/15.
Mothers allege some Gauteng hospitals are withholding newborn babies from immigrant mums until they can pay for delivering at public hospitals. Others say health care workers have threatened not to treat children unless bills are paid in full.
from foreign mums until bills for delivering at public hospitals are paid.
Men who go bald from the front are more likely to get prostate cancer, according to new research.
New research has shown that Afrikaans South Africans may be more likely to carry the breast cancer gene that led recently led actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy.
A new, viral social media campaign is encouraging South Africans to “burn for burns” as doctors warn that cold weather and load shedding are likely to prompt a spike in burn injuries this winter.
The global goal of getting 15 million people on life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has been met nine months early, the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) announced today.
Released in May 2015, the 52-page guidelines covers subjects like human rights, informed consent as well as self testing.
Security guards escorted several audience members out of a civil society-organised commission into the Free State health system as fears mounted that tensions in the room could lead to violence.
Teachers and children are celebrating new, safer toilets at one Limpopo school as the province slowly revamps school sanitation following the horrific pit latrine drowning of 6-year-old Michael Komape.
Pensioners living in rural Eastern Cape villages say they have never seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly combination of poor management and budget shortfalls keeps ambulances out of rural communities.
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