Professor Chrysis Sofianos, Academic Head of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand, urges South Africans not to ignore the small skin changes that could eventually require major treatment and reconstruction. A sore that…
When I started working on an article about men and suicide, I wanted to include the voices of men themselves. The SA Federation for Mental Health put out a call on our social media platforms, website and fortnightly newsletter asking…
South Africa’s HIV response is, in many ways, a remarkable success story. Millions of people now have access to life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART), transforming HIV from a fatal illness into a manageable chronic condition. Yet beneath this progress lies a…
This week, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) released the Operational Toolkit for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Hepatitis B. It is a deliberately practical document. Treatment algorithms. Liver fibrosis assessment. Clinical decision support for a…
The curtain on my long-standing career as a public health service employee after more than a decade spent championing the health rights of the most vulnerable, has drawn to a close. But it closes with sobering thoughts about what we…
To protect people’s right to healthcare, the South African government must table and pass the Patent Amendment Bill without delay It has been more than twelve years since the reveal of “PharmaGate,” a R6 million lobbying plot by the pharmaceutical…
South Africa hosted approximately 2.4 million international migrants as of 2022, accounting for 3.9% of the population. Most come from the Southern African Development Community region including Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi – countries with which South Africa shares deep economic,…
We have the tools to end TB. But is our health system organised and financed in a way that allows those tools to reach the people who need them most.
South Africa’s social innovators are already tackling some of our most deeply entrenched healthcare challenges.
Cheap, ultra-processed foods have become the most affordable and accessible option for struggling families.
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progress or containment. What is presented as pragmatism is, in fact, a set of political choices about access, timing, and scale
We often accept loud noise in traffic, shopping centres, restaurants, sports matches and music concerts as normal.
For the first time, South Africa has a near-real-time, nationwide view of diabetes control, with laboratory data refreshed within 48 hours.
Within SADC, mainland Tanzania has confirmed resistance to a key component of the first-line treatment, while Zambia and Namibia are showing concerning early signals of suspected resistance.
Malaria-transmitting mosquitoes don’t occur in Gauteng, thus people infected with malaria cannot pass the disease on to others.
