One year after Health-e News reported on Stinkwater's sanitation crisis, residents claim conditions have worsened.

Zimbabwean immigrants living in Louis Trichardt say they are being turned away from clinics or told their latest chronic ...

Nompilo Maleka is no ordinary granny. The 115-year-old great-grandmother from Driekop outside Burgersfort in Limpopo still ...

Residents from Mafarafara village make a dangerous crossing over the Tubatse River on a makeshift bridge built by community members. Photo Credit: Keletso Mkhwanazi For residents of Mafarafara village ...

For residents of Mafarafara village outside Burgersfort, reaching the nearest clinic means crossing the Tubatse River on a makeshift bridge and then walking another 1.5km up a steep, bushy gravel road ...

In 2023, the Commission for Gender Equality called the National Department of Health to account for delays in implementing recommendations from its investigation into the forced sterilisation of ...

For nine months, since May 2025, Kgorathuto Secondary School in Botshabelo in the Free State had ongoing water shortages, making the toilets unusable. Learners arrived at school for registers to be ...

The curtain on my long-standing career as a public health service employee after more than a decade spent championing the ...

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi speaking says men must be encouraged to tested for HIV. (Photo: UNAIDS) Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has identified men as a major challenge in South ...

This week, clinics in six provinces started the rollout of Lenacapavir, an injection that has been shown to be more than 96% effective in preventing HIV with just two jabs a year. This is part of a ...

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents like rats and mice, and can cause severe disease in humans. Not all hantaviruses cause disease in people, and only a small number like the Andes ...

South African health authorities are tracing 97 contacts of two patients confirmed to be infected with Hantavirus, for possible exposure to the virus. So far, 91 of the 97 contacts have been traced.