Traditional healers say patients they refer to public clinics can fall through the cracks because the two health systems don’t communicate effectively.

Informal gold miners working around old mine dumps between Nyakallong and Allanridge in the Free State say they risk exposure to mine dust, mercury and other ...

A stroke victim's desperate journey highlights the ambulance shortage in the Eastern Cape, leaving patients in peril.

Two families in Nyakallong, Free State, are mourning the deaths of two young boys who drowned in a mine dam near Harmony Gold’s Target 2 Rock Dump in ...

When the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) transgender clinic where Kamogelo Moamogoe received her hormone treatment closed last year ...

Registered dietitian and public health nutritionist Helen Donkin from the Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA) analysed seven of the meals, using ...

Residents of Matswale township in Musina say persistent sewage spills and the stench from overflowing wastewater continue to disrupt their lives, more than a ...

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 ...

Two young women in North West share their stories about how painful uterine fibroids have impacted their lives while facing delayed medical treatment.

Sewage is still spilling into the yards of residents in Nyakallong in the Free State despite a High Court ruling against the municipality, intervention by the ...

For 34-year-old paraplegic athlete Moloko Pula, getting to hospital for medical care means travelling from her rural village to Polokwane and relying on ...

Hunger accelerates disease progression, illness erodes earning potential, and reduced income deepens food insecurity, creating a cycle that medicine alone ...