New research shows a steep decline in adolescent pregnancy rates across all nine provinces from 2021 to 2025, reversing ...

The uptake of the once-every-six-month HIV prevention jab lenacapavir (LEN) in South Africa will be heavily affected by the ...

As South Africa's climate warms, the air is changing — and the effects are landing directly in people's lungs. Here's what reporters need to know. (Themba Hadebe/Associated Press) In today’s ...

SA’s first consignment of the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection, lenacapavir — 37 920 doses — arrived last week at OR Tambo Airport via two shipments from Dublin. The batches reached the country six ...

At 33, retired Constitutional Court justice Edwin Cameron thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death from Aids to a chronic, manageable condition at 73 — and ...

Experts say South Africa's contradictory approach to drugs — treating addiction as both a disease and a crime — is fuelling a ...

Thirty years ago, having a drink or two every day was thought to be good for your heart — thanks in part to the so-called French paradox. But research now shows that even a little alcohol can up the ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explain why HIV scientists and government are once again pitted against each other. Sign up for our newsletter today. In the leafy office park not far from Charlotte ...

The scientists in South Africa who alerted the world about the Omicron variant are now unable to access enough of the chemicals they need to keep tracking the virus. The travel bans on southern ...

In today’s newsletter, our editor-in-chief Mia Malan and content editor Linda Pretorius look at what it may cost South Africa to supply HIV-prevention drug lenacapavir. Sign up for our newsletter now.

During this initiation season, we look back at what happened in 2013 when bungled initiations cost boys their penises. It was day 25 and Xhobiso Pungulwa* (18) slowly pushed himself up in his bed. He ...