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 ...

Based on the best international studies, here are three ways we can reduce heavy drinking: Limit the advertising and promotion of alcohol, which influences young people to drink heavily at a time when ...

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 ...

Ketamine has been used for decades as an anaesthetic drug. But in the past few years, more and more psychiatrists have been using it for hard-to-treat depression; in SA, that’s when at least two ...

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=" ...

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

South Africa has a high stunting rate, an indicator of chronic malnutrition that measures if a child is too short for their age, which has hovered around 25% since the 1990s. That impacts our per ...

The impact of the Trump administration’s slashing of over half of South Africa’s HIV and TB projects funded by the US government, transcends reduced access to HIV testing and HIV prevention and ...

The 3 022 US government data capturers in South Africa that the US government funded — 1 601 lost their jobs in February and another 1 421 are likely to be unemployed by September — account for about ...

It's been two decades since the denialism war was won in South Africa. Now HIV scientists and government are pitted against each other once again, with one side saying the health minister is in denial ...

Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. Twenty years ago, they were the smallest proportion. As people age, their chance for developing health ...

Medical school didn’t prepare Sarah Stein for the cold, matter-of-fact way her colleagues dealt with death. When she asked one of the doctors she worked with how they could move on so quickly after a ...